Reprimands · Criminal justice
The Commissioner of Police for the City of London
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Root cause
Failure on individual rights
Subject access requests ignored or answered late, or people prevented from exercising their data rights.
What happened
A reprimand has been issued to The Commissioner of Police for the City of London (COLP), after it failed to meet its data protection obligations in responding to SARs within the statutory timeframe during the period 1 April 2023 to 31 July 2025, thereby contravening Article 12(3) UK GDPR and s45(3) DPA 2018.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 20 February 2026. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.