Police complaint — escalation to IOPC

From: [YOUR NAME, CONTACT]

To: Independent Office for Police Conduct, PO Box 473, Sale, M33 0BW

Force complained about: [FORCE], reference: [PSD REFERENCE]

Date: [DD / MM / YYYY]

Dear Sir / Madam,

I write to request a review under Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002 of the handling and / or outcome of my complaint, concluded by [FORCE] on [DATE].

My original complaint concerned [SUMMARY — e.g. failure to investigate reports of domestic abuse, failure to arrest despite a positive DASH risk assessment, treatment by attending officers, failure to safeguard a child].

I am dissatisfied for the following reasons:

1. [REASON — e.g. material evidence (body-worn footage, 999 call recording, witness account) was not obtained or considered].

2. [REASON — e.g. the College of Policing APP on Domestic Abuse and / or the force's own DA policy was not applied].

3. [REASON — e.g. the conclusion does not address all the conduct complained of].

4. [REASON — e.g. no action was proposed despite findings of poor practice].

I ask the IOPC to:

• find that the outcome was not reasonable and proportionate;

• direct the force to reinvestigate the matters not addressed;

• consider whether any officer's conduct meets the threshold for misconduct proceedings;

• make organisational learning recommendations to [FORCE] in relation to its handling of domestic abuse.

Yours faithfully,

[SIGN AND PRINT NAME]