FOI 223434
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 223434
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 18th January 2023. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding, below is the response to your request:
From 2015 to the day this request is processed, please state how many police officers have taken unauthorised photos of dead bodies.
In each case, please disclose the following:
- Please provide a description as to what happened, and please state the year that the unauthorised photo/photos were taken.
- Please state whether the police officer shared the unauthorised photos of dead bodies with other police officers/members of staff.
- Please state whether the police officer received disciplinary action. Please describe the disciplinary action.
- Please state the (i) the gender (ii) the ethnicity of the dead body in the unauthorised photo/photos.
Reply
From 2015 to the date of response there was 1 case, details below -
- Please provide a description as to what happened, and please state the year that the unauthorised photo/photos were taken.
The photos were taken in 2016, and were of a body decomposing in water.
- Please state whether the police officer shared the unauthorised photos of dead bodies with other police officers/members of staff.
It was shared, but not with other police officers/members of staff.
- Please state whether the police officer received disciplinary action. Please describe the disciplinary action.
Case finalised in 2017 by dismissal of the officer.
- Please state the (i) the gender (ii) the ethnicity of the dead body in the unauthorised photo/photos.
IC Male.