Police Anti-Corruption & Abuse Reporting Service

Launch National Police Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service  

BlueLight Commercial, working with the National Police Chiefs' Council and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, are delighted to have put in place the Framework for the new National Police Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service. 51 organisations from across the policing family, joined in the UK launch on 14 March, which will be run by the independent charity Crimestoppers. 

The service has been established to give the public an anonymous and confidential route to report concerns about criminal behaviour by individuals in policing. It will bolster policing's capability to take action against those who are not fit to serve.

The Police Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service covers information relating to officers, staff and volunteers who: 

• Provide information or influence in return for money or favours.
• Use their policing position for personal advantage - whether financial or otherwise.
• Cross professional boundaries or abuse their position for sexual purposes.
• Abuse or control their partner, or those they have a relationship with.
• Engage in racist, homophobic, misogynistic or disablist conduct, on or off duty, in person or online.

Crimestoppers will take reports from the public about individuals employed by any police force in the UK, regardless of whether the information relates to them whilst they are on or off duty, online or in person. Reports can be submitted online and telephone calls are free.  

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.    

Information received by Crimestoppers will be passed to the forces who will assess it and may then pass the information to specialist detectives to begin an investigation, take steps to safeguard someone at risk or in danger, or record the information to inform future investigations. 

The service sits alongside existing complaints procedure, and has been set up solely to take reports of corruption and or serious abuse committed by serving police officers, staff and volunteers.