Independent Office for Police Conduct

UK: IOPC publishes figures on deaths during or following police contact for 2018/19 (IOPC, link): "There were 16 deaths in or following police custody, a decrease of seven from a ten-year high in 2017/18, and in line with the average figure for over the last decade. No deaths took place within a police custody suite. Six people died in hospital after becoming unwell in a police cell, and six people were taken ill at the scene of arrest and died in hospital. There were three fatal police shootings, compared to four fatalities last year. There were 42 road traffic fatalities, an increase of 13 on last year and the highest figure in the past decade; 30 of the deaths were from police pursuit-related incidents, an increase of 13 from last year; five fatalities resulted from emergency response incidents, a decrease of three from last year. There were 63 apparent suicides following police custody, a small increase on the previous year."