What we publish
Police oversight in the UK produces a great deal of data. The Independent Office for Police Conduct publishes complaint volumes and, more usefully, what happened when those complaints were reviewed. data.police.uk publishes every recorded stop and search, with its outcome. Almost none of it reaches the people it is about.
We compile it per force and publish it as readable pages. Currently that covers 44 UK police forces, roughly 1.4 million stop and search records, and complaint and review-outcome figures for every force that reports them.
How the figures are produced
Every number on this site is computed directly from the published source data. No figure is estimated, adjusted, or generated by a language model.
Where a force did not record something, we say so rather than working around it. Rates are calculated only over the records where the relevant field was actually completed, and each one is published with the numerator, the denominator, and the proportion of records the field covers. Where coverage is too thin for a percentage to mean anything, we do not publish a percentage.
What this site is not
It is an information resource. It does not provide legal advice, it does not act for anyone, and nothing on it is a substitute for advice about your own situation.
Who runs it
PoliceComplaint.com is a trading style of Copious Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 11437826, registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under ZA453238. Copious Ltd is part of Copious Group Ltd, company number 13308502.
Corrections
If you believe a figure on this site is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it. Source data is periodically restated by the bodies that publish it, and we would rather be corrected than be wrong.