FOI 650/25

REQUEST & RESPONSE

 

I am writing under the Freedom of Information act to request data you have recorded on conduct investigations into police perpetrated domestic abuse (PPDA) led by your police force, from 1 January 2021 to 31 April 2025.

 

Specifically, I request the following information. Please send the response in an Excel spreadsheet. 

 

1) PPDA CONDUCT CASES. The number of conduct cases instigated against police officers, and the number of individual officers they relate to, involving domestic abuse from 1 January 2021 to 31 April 2025

 

If your force does not have a specific flag used on Centurion to identify domestic abuse cases, please apply the methodology that you would usually use to identify and report on such cases, for example by searching for key words within the allegation summary field.

 

Please describe the methodology used. If your methodology is manual and time consuming to the extent that responding to the question would exceed time constraints, please limit your response to a reasonable time frame by starting with a later year, and describe the dates covered.

 

Please break down the number of cases by year and specify the number of individuals involved as well as the total number of cases:

 

YEAR	COUNT OF POLICE OFFICERS	TOTAL NUMBER OF CONDUCT CASES
2021	12	12
2022	6	6
2023	8	8
2024	11	12
2025 (to end of April)	7	7
TOTAL	40 Officers**	45

 

**Please note, there are officers who have faced multiple allegations of PPDA across 2021 – 2025. For example, an officer had allegations made against them in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and these allegations are recorded in each year they’re received.

 

Therefore, the number of conduct cases will appear higher than the number of officers as some officers will have more than one allegation against them.

 

We have supplied the number of PPDA conduct cases and the number of officers as this question has asked for both.

 

 

 

2) PPDA CONDUCT OFFICER RANK. For the individuals identified above, please specify the rank of the police officer

 

INDIVIDUAL’S RANK	TOTAL
Constable	32
Sergeant & above	8
TOTAL	40

 

3) PPDA CONDUCT INITIAL OUTCOMES. For the cases identified above, please break down the initial outcomes of all conduct cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

 

INITIAL CONDUCT CASE RESULT	TOTAL
Discontinuance	2
No case to answer	30
Case to answer	2
Ongoing/live	11
TOTAL	45

 

4) PPDA CONDUCT CASE TO ANSWER OUTCOMES. For the cases identified above where there was a case to answer, please break down the action taken for all such cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

 

ACTION IF CASE TO ANSWER	TOTAL
Formal action	2
No action
Reflective practice
Ongoing/live
TOTAL	2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) PPDA CONDUCT FORMAL ACTION TAKEN. For the cases identified above where there was formal action taken, please break down the sanction enforced, for all such cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

 

SANCTION IF FORMAL ACTION	TOTAL
Dismissal
Would Have Been Dismissed	2
Final Written Warning
Written Warning
No Action
Proceedings Discontinued
Other
Ongoing/live
TOTAL	2

 

6) SIZE OF WORKFORCE. Please provide a snapshot of the number of police officers working for your force as of 31^st December each year, and on 31^st April 2025, by group of rank.

 

If that is not possible, please provide a snapshot at another specified date each year.

 

YEAR	POLICE CONSTABLES	SERGEANTS AND ABOVE	TOTAL POLICE OFFICERS
31 Dec 2021	2,395	806	3,201
31 Dec 2022	2,548	824	3,372
31 Dec 2023	2,607	867	3,474
31 Dec 2024	2,636	895	3,531
31 Apr 2025	2,628	895	3,523

 

Please note, that these figures in question 6 do not include officers seconded out of Force.

 

South Wales Police is committed to investigating all allegations of misconduct and robustly pursue allegations of wrongdoing, including corruption. It should be noted that the vast majority of staff work extremely hard to ‘Keep South Wales Safe’ but on occasions, the actions of a few tarnish the professional reputation of the organisation. South Wales Police provide extensive training and advice to police officers and police staff around issues of dishonesty, unethical behaviour and corruption and have an integrity hotline, which allows the confidential reporting of wrongdoing. South Wales Police will continue to develop a culture in which reporting wrongdoing and corruption is viewed as doing the right thing and will continue take a proactive and positive lead on all such matter.