Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Thank you for your email received today in which you make a request for information that Northumbria Police may hold in accordance with the Freedom Of Information Act 2000

We are in the process of dealing with your request and a response should be provided to you by 22/05/2019 which is in accordance with the legislation.

Yours sincerely

Information Management Unit

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'We will do this through protecting the Vulnerable, delivering quality Investigations and applying Problem solving to everything we do to protect the communities we serve.'

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Joanna
Unfortunately due to staff shortages and an increase in the numbers of FOI requests being received we are behind our normal 20 working day returns
We shall get a response to you as soon as we are able.
Your patience is appreciated.

Regards
FOI team

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'Northumbria Police will be outstanding in the service we provide'

'We will do this through protecting the Vulnerable, delivering quality Investigations and applying Problem solving to everything we do to protect the communities we serve.'

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Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

Thank you for your e mail dated 23 April 2019 in which you made a request
for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of
access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority
(including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

1. The number of police officers arrested between 2015 and 2019, with
figures broken down for each year.

2. The number of police staff arrested between 2015 and 2019, with figures
broken down for each year.

For each arrest, please provide:

3. The rank/role of the arrested person

4. Years in service

5.Date of arrest

6. Details of the offence the individual was arrested on suspicion of

7.The outcome of the criminal investigation, including the outcome of any
prosecution where applicable

8. The outcome of any other investigation into the matter please specify
who conducted the investigation (i.e. internal within the force, the IPCC,
etc) and the end result of that investigation

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted only within the
Professional Standards Department of Northumbria Police. Any other
searches would have rendered this request exempt under Section 12 or
burdensome under Section 14 due to additional search areas  which would
have required extensive research being carried out, ie of PNC records.  In
order to provide you with a response we have therefore limited any
searches to the  Professional Standards Department.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

The following information has been extracted from records maintained by
Professional Standards Department.  

1.         2015 - 10

2016 - 3

2017 - 6

2018 - 6

2019 - 1 (up to 25/04/19)

2.         2015 - 5

2016 - 1

2017 - 0

2018 - 2

2019 - 0 (up to 25/04/19)

3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

(question 4 years in service is from the original start date to the arrest
date)

years offence outcome
URN Rank / in date of arrested on outcome criminal  investigation misconduct
Role service arrest suspicion investigation
of
Dismissed
Police Drink Fined and disqualified from driving for 17 without
1 Constable 21 Feb/2015 Driving months notice -
Local
Investigation
Resigned
120 hours unpaid work, disqualified from prior to
2 Police 21 Jun/2015 Drink holding or obtaining a driving licence for 29 misconduct
Constable Driving months and ordered to pay proceedings -
costs                                         Local
Investigation
Assault No action -
3 Police Jan/2015 occasioning NFA Local
Constable actual Investigation
bodily harm
Criminal No action -
4 Police 2015 Damage / NFA Local
Sergeant Breach of Investigation
the Peace
Resigned
prior to
5 Police 00 May/2015 Fraud Simple Caution misconduct
staff proceedings -
Local
Investigation
Resigned
prior to
6 Police 09 Aug/2015 Drunk & not applicable misconduct
staff Disorderly proceedings -
Local
Investigation
Final written
7 Police 2015 Drink Fined and disqualified from driving for 17 warning  -
staff Driving months Local
Investigation
Resigned
Incite male prior to
8 Special 01 Jan/2015 under 13 NFA misconduct
Constable engage in proceedings -
sexual act Local
Investigation
Written
9 Police 2015 Common Case Dismissed warning  -
Constable Assault Local
Investigation
Assault Dismissed
Police occasioning Community Order for a period of 12 months without
10 Constable 13 Sep/2015 actual which included a two month curfew and order notice -
bodily harm to pay compensation Local
Investigation
Corrupt or Dismissed
other without
11 Police 15 Oct/2015 Improper 255 hours unpaid work in the community and notice -
Constable Exercise of ordered to pay costs Local
Police Investigation
Powers
Corrupt or Dismissed
other without
12 Police 08 Oct/2015 Improper 120 hours unpaid work and pay costs notice -
Constable Exercise of Local
Police Investigation
Powers
Written
13 Police 2015 Drink Fined and disqualified from driving for 18 warning  -
staff Driving months Local
Investigation
Police common No action -
14 Constable 2015 assault by NFA Local
beating Investigation
Assault No action -
15 Police   2015 occasioning NFA Local
staff actual Investigation
bodily harm
Police Sexual No action -
16 Constable 2018 Assault NFA Local
Investigation
Resigned
prior to
17 Police 09 Aug/2016 Theft Case Dismissed misconduct
staff proceedings -
Local
Investigation
Penetrate
Sexually
Police the vagina No action -
18 Constable 2016 / anus of Not Guilty Not Proven Local
another Investigation
without
consent
19 Police   2016 Assault NFA No action -
Sergeant
Dismissed
Police 18 month imprisonment - half the sentence to without
20 Constable 09 Mar/2017 Harassment be served in custody, half on licence notice -
local
investigation
Police Drunk & No action -
21 Sergeant 2017 Disorderly Fixed penalty local
investigation
Dismissed
Police Drink Fined and disqualified from driving for 22 without
22 Constable 20 May/2017 Driving months notice -
local
investigation
Dismissed
Police Drink Fined and disqualified from driving for 25 without
23 Constable 14 Feb/2017 Driving months notice -
local
investigation
Final written
24 Special   2017 Drunk & not applicable warning  -
Constable Disorderly local
investigation
Written
25 Police 2018 Drunk & not applicable warning  -
staff Disorderly local
investigation
Dismissed
Police Drug Fined and disqualified from driving for 12 without
26 Constable 21 Apr/2018 Driving months notice -
local
investigation
Assault
Occasioning Dismissed
Actual Section 20 Assault GBH  -  GUILTY - two & without
27 Police 21 Apr/2018 Bodily half years sentence notice -
Constable Harm, Criminal Damage  - NOT GUILTY local
Criminal investigation
Damage and
Burglary,
Resigned
prior to
28 Police 09 Jul/2018 Drink Fined and disqualified from driving for 12 misconduct
staff Driving months proceedings -
local
investigation
Police DV common No action -
29 Constable 2018 assault NFA local
investigation
Police No action -
30 Constable 2018 S 39 NFA local
investigation
Police Drink No action -
31 Sergeant 2018 Driving Case dismissed local
investigation
Police No action -
32 Constable 2019 Affray NFA local
investigation

To note – Section 40(2) has been applied to some of the information above
where officers have not been dismissed.

Section 40(2) Personal Information:

This is an absolute exemption and therefore a Public Interest Test is not
relevant.  However, for clarity, I will explain my rationale for engaging
this exemption.

Section 40(2) provides that information is exempt if it is the personal
data of someone other than the applicant and disclosure would breach any
of the data protection principles. The term ‘personal data’ means data
that relates to a living individual who can be identified.  This may take
an obvious form of ‘personal’ such as a name but can also include
information from which a person can be identified. Although not explicitly
naming individuals, the cumulative effect of full disclosure may lead to
the identification of those involved

A disclosure in this instance, because it is so specific, would infringe
the first Data Protection Principle, in that it would be both unlawful and
unfair

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a
specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an
indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another.
Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the
procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses
between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative
purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual
property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be
strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as
amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not
re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

You may be interested to know that Northumbria Police routinely publish
information via the Disclosure Log. The aim of the Disclosure Log is to
promote openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into
the public arena.

The Disclosure Log contains copies of some of the information that has
been disclosed by Northumbria Police in response to requests made under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Whilst it is not possible to publish all responses we will endeavour to
publish those where we feel that the information disclosed is in the wider
public interest.

The Disclosure Log will be updated once responses have been sent to the
requester.

I have provided the relevant link below.

[1]https://beta.northumbria.police.uk/about...

How to complain

If you are unhappy with our decision or do not consider that we have
handled your request properly and we are unable to resolve this issue
informally, you are entitled to make a formal complaint to us under our
complaints procedure, attached.

If you are still unhappy after we have investigated your complaint and
reported to you the outcome, you may complain directly to the Information
Commissioner’s Office and request that they investigate to ascertain
whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.

Yours sincerely

Michael Cleugh

Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor

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Joanna
I think it may be the website, however I've provided a link to our Disclosure Log where the request is published.
Hopefully that will make it clearer - if not please get back to us.

https://beta.northumbria.police.uk/about...

Regards
FOI team

www.northumbria.police.uk | www.northumbria-pcc.gov.uk

'Northumbria Police will be outstanding in the service we provide'

'We will do this through protecting the Vulnerable, delivering quality Investigations and applying Problem solving to everything we do to protect the communities we serve.'

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