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Jan 2023
More than 700 complaints were made against North Yorkshire Police officers in a year, the force has revealed.
The 740 complaints from members of the public were made against 352 individual officers between April 2021 and April 2022.
The statistic has been released by North Yorkshire Police as part of its response to national news stories about David Carrick. The Met Police officer had several allegations made against him over a period of 20 years, but did not face any charges or misconduct proceedings at work.
This week, he admitted 49 charges of sexual abuse, including rape, beginning as early as 2003. He was only arrested in October 2021.
The Met has since said more than 1,600 allegations against more than 1,000 officers and staff were being reviewed as a result of Carrick's case.
A spokesperson for North Yorkshire Police said:
Of the 740 complaints made against North Yorkshire Police officers, the force said there could be several relating to a single incident.
Those complaints did not amount to the same thing as misconduct, it said: some could be about an officer failing to keep a victim of crime updated on progress in their case, for example.
The Stray Ferret asked North Yorkshire Police how many of the complaints were matters of misconduct, or how many related to allegations of sexual offences, abuse, coercive control or other related offences.
We also asked how many complaints were investigated and how many resulted in disciplinary action being taken against the officer, but we had not received a response by the time of publication.
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