Report Summary
This report provides members of the Complaints & Conduct Committee with an overview of Police Scotland Professional Boundaries – Review of Police Perpetrated Domestic Abuse.
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Meeting
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Complaints & Conduct Committee - 4 September 2025
Date : 04 September 2025
Location : Online
Background
Following the last presentation of Police Scotland Professional Boundaries – Police Perpetrated Domestic Abuse to this committee on 5 September 2024, a collation of recorded Police Perpetrated Domestic Abuse reported between 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 has been reviewed*.
During the reporting period there were 140 reports with 99 named perpetrators who are/were Police Officers or Members of Police Staff (MOPS) at the time of the report being made. 125 reports were made against officers (89.3%), and 15 reports were made against MOPS (10.7%).
Of the 140 perpetrators, 113 (80.7%) are male and 31 (19.3%) are female. Female perpetrators who are Police Officers are more likely to be among lower ranks, whilst male perpetrators reach up to the rank of Chief Inspector.
Several perpetrators with repeat reports against them within this reporting period were identified. Of these, 16 were Constable rank, 2 were Sergeant rank, 2 were Inspector rank, 1 was ranked Chief Inspector, 2 were MOPS.
In this reporting period, 4 (2.8%) reports were in relation to sexual offending, 81 (57.9%) were in relation to other domestic related criminality with 55 (39.3%) relating to no crime domestic incidents.
These figures have no significant variance from the previous submission in September 2024, which provided analysis between the period 1 January 2023 – 31 January 2024.
*=Statistics sourced from iBase
