National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service
With the focus on improving trust and confidence in law enforcement, the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service demonstrates to the public that the police are addressing recent concerns.
Rooting out those police officers and police staff who abuse their position will help make the policing environment safer, not just for the public but for everyone who works in law enforcement.
What is the main purpose of launching the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service?
The National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service gives members of the public a way to report information about a police officer or a member of police staff who they believe are taking advantage of their role or abusing their position of trust. With the service being run by the independent charity Crimestoppers, the aim is to encourage people who might otherwise stay silent to come forward, safe in the knowledge that they will not be speaking directly to police when they make their initial contact.
What type of information will the public be asked to report via the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service?
It may be for financial or for sexual motivation, or their conduct is motivated by hatred or prejudice. Specifically, this may be officers or staff who:
- Provides information or influence in return for money or favours.
- Uses their policing position for personal advantage - whether financial or otherwise.
- Crosses professional boundaries for sexual purposes.
- Abuses or controls their partner, or those they have a relationship with.
- Engages in racist, homophobic or misogynistic conduct, on or off duty, in person or online.
The National Anti-Corruption and Abuse reporting service is an anonymous and confidential reporting service. When people contact the service, they can choose to remain 100% anonymous, or can opt to leave their details if they are willing for the force investigation team to contact them directly.
How much information can our force expect from the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service?
With over 12 months of data from the Metropolitan Police Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service, you can be reassured of the effective method of triage Crimestoppers has in place. Details of every contact will not be sent to you unless it meets a threshold of enough detail for corroboration, is specifically about police corruption, abuse and wrongdoing and is not a personal complaint of appeal about a current investigation.
In 12 months, 35% of contacts to The Metropolitan Police Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service were processed and disseminated as an information report.
We cannot predict how many reports each force will receive but data from the existing service can provide a good example of demand on the Metropolitan Police. On average The Metropolitan Police have received around 43 reports a month ranging from 131 in the four weeks after launch to 30 reports at its lowest.
How will we receive information into force from the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service?
Crimestoppers will disseminate relevant information to each force via CJSM secure email with a pdf information report attached direct to your chosen nominated mailbox. The report will be clearly labelled as being received from the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service.
Information received from members of the public via the telephone, or the online form will be disseminated in near real time with each report being sent individually.
What if information received poses an immediate threat or risk?
Crimestoppers specially trained staff will identify information that requires urgent police attention and will act on it immediately. Crimestoppers currently has tried and tested fast time protocols embedded with every police force for their core service of taking anonymous information about crime from the public.
Due to the potential sensitive nature of anti-corruption and abuse reports, Crimestoppers asks that along with providing your nominated mailbox address, you also provide a process including contact details for receiving information fast time, both in hours and out of hours.
Our force has a Crimestoppers Police Integrity Line. Do we still need the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service?
Yes! The two services, both powered by Crimestoppers, are completely independent of each other and have been designed to target and appeal to two different audiences.
What is the difference between the Police Integrity Line and the National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service?
The Police Integrity Line has been exclusively designed for the sole use of police officers and staff. The internal reporting service empowers officers and staff to report wrongdoing confidentially or with guaranteed anonymity through trusted Crimestoppers mechanisms.
In contrast, the National Police Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service will appeal for members of the public to speak up and report their own concerns about corrupt and abusive police officers and staff.
Who can I contact for more information?
NPCC: [email protected]
APPC: [email protected]
Crimestoppers:[email protected]
