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 "title": "Deaths during or following police contact, England and Wales",
 "category": "crime-justice",
 "summary": "Deaths during or following police contact in England and Wales each financial year since 2004/05, in each of the Independent Office for Police Conduct's five categories: road traffic, fatal shootings, deaths in or following custody, apparent suicides following custody and other deaths following contact.",
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  "Accredited official statistics: the deaths the IOPC investigated or that were referred to it, from 1 April to 31 March, each in one of its five categories by the IOPC's own definitions. A single incident can cause more than one death; the hub shows the deaths.",
  "The IOPC gives each force's figures too, but names forces without codes and places a case two forces share differently in its two files, so the hub shows England and Wales alone.",
  "If this subject affects you, Samaritans are there day or night, free on 116 123.",
  "The IOPC marks as revised in this edition: road traffic fatalities in 2021/22, deaths in or following police custody in 2021/22 and 2024/25, apparent suicides following police custody in 2024/25 and other deaths following police contact in 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.",
  "Other deaths following police contact, 2010/11: Change in definition in 2010/11 to include only cases subject to an independent investigation.",
  "Other deaths following police contact, 2015/16: Expansion of IOPC investigative resource and capacity to carry out more independent investigations into serious and sensitive matters - this has a direct impact on the number of 'other contact deaths' that are reported."
 ],
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     "x": "2019/20",
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     "x": "2020/21",
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     "x": "2021/22",
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    {
     "x": "2024/25",
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     "x": "2025/26",
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     "x": "2005/06",
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     "x": "2012/13",
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     "x": "2014/15",
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    },
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     "x": "2015/16",
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     "x": "2016/17",
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    },
    {
     "x": "2017/18",
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    },
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     "x": "2018/19",
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    },
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
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    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
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    {
     "x": "2021/22",
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     "x": "2022/23",
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    {
     "x": "2023/24",
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    {
     "x": "2024/25",
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    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
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   "name": "Deaths in or following police custody",
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     "x": "2004/05",
     "v": 36.0
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    {
     "x": "2005/06",
     "v": 28.0
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    {
     "x": "2006/07",
     "v": 27.0
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    {
     "x": "2007/08",
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    {
     "x": "2008/09",
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     "x": "2010/11",
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     "x": "2012/13",
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     "x": "2014/15",
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     "x": "2023/24",
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    {
     "x": "2024/25",
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     "x": "2025/26",
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     "x": "2005/06",
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     "x": "2025/26",
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     "x": "2004/05",
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     "x": "2024/25",
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