None
Financial penalty
Reprimand, no fine
15 May 2025
Date on the register
UK GDPR
Law relied on
DPA 2018 section 45, DPA 2018 section 54
Criminal justice
Sector
26 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO issued Greater Manchester Police with a reprimand on 15 May 2025 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.
01The record
- Organisation named
- Greater Manchester Police
- Action
- Reprimand
- Date published
- 15 May 2025
- Register year
- 2025
- Law relied on
- UK GDPR
- Provisions cited
- DPA 2018 section 45, DPA 2018 section 54, UK GDPR Article 12(3), UK GDPR Article 15, UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
- Penalty
- None (not a financial penalty)
- Sector on the register
- Criminal justice
- ICO register reference
- 75568
- 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
- 31
- Actions under this law
- 95
- Position on the register
- 175th 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
Greater Manchester Police received an ICO reprimand on 15 May 2025. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing DPA 2018 section 45, DPA 2018 section 54, UK GDPR Article 12(3) and UK GDPR Article 15. 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 Greater Manchester Police appears on the register without a figure beside it.
Greater Manchester Police is filed under Criminal justice, which accounts for 26 of the 216 actions on the register (12%). In 2025 the ICO published 31 enforcement actions in total, 8 of them reprimands. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 175th of 216 actions on the register and the 20th of 26 in Criminal justice. Greater Manchester Police appears 2 times on this register: reprimand on 14 March 2025 and reprimand on 15 May 2025. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 183 KB in total: "GMP reprimand". It is the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
Due to historic outstanding requests Chief Constable Greater Manchester Police had continually failed to meet its data protection obligations when responding to subject access requests (SARs) infringing Article 12(3) of UK GDPR, Article 15 of UK GDPR and Section 45, Part 3 of DPA 2018 and Section 54, Part 3 of DPA 2018.
The law behind this action
UK GDPR
The UK GDPR is the data protection regime the ICO enforces against controllers and processors. Its upper tier is capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
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
- PDFGMP reprimand(183 KB)
04Other entries for Greater Manchester Police
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester Police | 14 Mar 2025 | Reprimand | Not stated | - |
05Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Yorkshire Police | 6 Jun 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| The Commissioner of Police for the City of London | 20 Feb 2026 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Dover Harbour Board | 15 Mar 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Chief Constable West Midlands Police | 1 Mar 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Chief Constable Devon and Cornwall Police | 2 Feb 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
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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.
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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.
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