The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), has raised concern about the apparent lack of criminal prosecutions for police officers accused of wrong doing.

In a special report tabled in parliament Tuesday, Commissioner Hugh Faulkner noted that 47 police officers have been charged with criminal offences, between January 2024 and September 2025.

Of that number, 13 have been charged with murder, and the greater majority relate to assault allegations.

Details on the status of prosecutions and court proceedings were outlined in the Commission’s second quarterly report for April to June 2024.

Commissioner Faulkner said, for any officer’s actions to have been determined so egregious, and for which there is a sufficiency of evidence for a criminal prosecution, its a matter for which the Constabulary Force High Command must take remedial note.

He noted that the absence of criminal prosecutions, with its necessarily high evidential threshold, does not equate to a status whereby all other police/civilian interactions are without culpability or wrong doing.

He said the absence, of criminal or disciplinary proceedings, because of the insufficiency of substantive evidence, is not the measure, by which the Constabulary Force can be confident that operational encounters, are satisfactorily carried out.