None

Financial penalty

Reprimand, no fine

27 July 2026

Date on the register

Data Protection Act 2018

Law relied on

DPA 2018 section 40

Criminal justice

Sector

26 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) with a reprimand on 27 July 2026 under the Data Protection Act 2018. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
Action: Reprimand
Date published: 27 July 2026
Register year: 2026
Law relied on: Data Protection Act 2018
Provisions cited: DPA 2018 section 40
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: Criminal justice
ICO register reference: 121621
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 1 PDF published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 26 of 216 actions (12%)
Actions published that year: 21
Actions under this law: 8
Position on the register: 213th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone
Entries for this organisation: 2 on this register

02What happened, and where it sits

Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) received an ICO reprimand on 27 July 2026. The Commissioner acted under the Data Protection Act 2018, citing DPA 2018 section 40. A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

No sum is attached to this action. Reprimands are corrective, not financial, which is why Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) appears on the register without a figure beside it.

Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is filed under Criminal justice, which accounts for 26 of the 216 actions on the register (12%). In 2026 the ICO published 21 enforcement actions in total, 3 of them reprimands. 8 actions on the register name Data Protection Act 2018.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 213th of 216 actions on the register and the 26th of 26 in Criminal justice. Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) appears 2 times on this register: reprimand on 27 July 2026 and enforcement notice on 27 July 2026. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 470 KB in total: "Metropolitan Police Service reprimand and enforcement notice". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

Incident 1 (ICO Ref: INV/0034/2025), concerning the service of unredacted documents in support of a Stalking Protection Order application; and Incident 2 (ICO Ref: INV/0138/2024), concerning the disclosure of email addresses when contacting victims of the Honeytrap Matter.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

Data Protection Act 2018

The Data Protection Act 2018 carries the UK GDPR into domestic law, sets out the separate law-enforcement and intelligence-services regimes in Parts 3 and 4, and creates the criminal offences the ICO prosecutes.

All 8 register actions under Data Protection Act 2018

What a reprimand does

A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

Published notice

PDFMetropolitan Police Service reprimand and enforcement notice(470 KB)

04Other entries for Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)

1 further entry on the register
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)	27 Jul 2026	Enforcement notice	Data Protection Act 2018	-	Criminal justice

05Nearest entries on the register

Closest by sector, law and date
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
South Wales Police	26 Aug 2022	Reprimand	Data Protection Act 2018	-	Criminal justice
Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)	27 Jul 2026	Enforcement notice	Data Protection Act 2018	-	Criminal justice
The Commissioner of Police for the City of London	20 Feb 2026	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Criminal justice
Crown Prosecution Service	18 Jan 2024	Enforcement notice	Data Protection Act 2018	-	Criminal justice
South Yorkshire Police	6 Jun 2025	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Criminal justice

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Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

GDPRFine.com is an independent tracker of ICO enforcement. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Information Commissioner's Office, and it uses no ICO branding. Where the ICO's own wording is reproduced it is quoted and attributed; everything else on these pages is our own summary of the published record.

The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2026/07/metropolitan-police-service-reprimand/.