Crime: Victims

(asked on 2nd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints by victims of crime have been lodged against (a) the police and (b) the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 4th March 2015

The table shows the total number of complaint cases recorded against all Home
Office Police Forces and the British Transport Police from 2009/10 – 2013/14
(data is from the Independent Police Complaints Commission). Data is not
collected on whether the complainant in each case is a victim of crime.

Full statistics on police complaints are published by the Independent Police
Complaints Commission on its website; this includes a breakdown of the number
of complaints by police force: www.ipcc.gov.uk

The Home Office does not collect data on the number of complaints made against
the Crown Prosecution Service.

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13*

2013/14

Total recorded in year

34,310

33,099

30,143

30,365

34,863

*The definition of a complaint was broadened from this point onwards to include direction and control (applies to complaints received on or after 22 November 2012).

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