The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating allegations a detective used artificial intelligence (AI) inappropriately during criminal investigations.

Officers at risk of ‘accidental’ AI misconduct, IOPC warns The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has urged police chiefs to review their AI policies to prevent officers and staff ...

Our 2026/27 Business Plan builds on the hard work and dedication of our staff and our Transformation programme, which successfully delivered major changes to the way we worked in 2025/26.

Our work cuts across a number of key areas and themes. We use learning from our work to promote high standards of professionalism and accountability in policing.

This document is issued in support of the routine request for all police forces in England and Wales to supply complaints data to the IOPC.

*The figures for City of London include complaint cases logged in relation to ‘Action Fraud’. Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime. The service is run by the ...

We are the police complaints watchdog. We are not the police and are completely independent of them. We set the standards for the police complaints system. We make sure the police are investigating ...

Police forces have a statutory duty to refer all incidents involving a death or serious injury to us. Each year, we publish statistics on the nature and circumstances of deaths during or following ...

We don't just oversee the police complaints system. Our teams carry out hundreds of independent investigations and reviews every year. We also improve policing through our learning and research. Our ...

We regularly monitor our performance to ensure we are achieving our aims as outlined in our strategy: We measure a range of different performance indicators such as: awareness of the IOPC time taken ...

Each year, we publish statistics about the complaints that forces have logged. Our complaints statistics reports include information about the number and type of complaints made. They also set out how ...

Our sixth Impact report 2023/24 focuses on stories about real people and the impact we have had on the public and policing. This report showcases examples from the first year of our new five-year ...