Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 29
29
Deferred
Greater understanding needed of police complainants, ethnicity, and protected characteristics
Conclusion
It is vital that policing understands who is making complaints, why they are doing so and what the outcomes are. Ethnic disproportionalities exist across areas such as stop and search and use of force, and the generally lower levels of confidence in the police amongst many people from Black and minority ethnic communities, make this particularly important. More understanding is also needed of the experiences of complaining among people with other protected characteristics. (Paragraph 69) Policing priorities 63
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response deflects by outlining general strategic policing priorities, existing plans like the Beating Crime Plan and Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan, and funding initiatives, without addressing the specific recommendation to understand complaint demographics or disproportionalities.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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20. It is right that we consider the impact of changes to the misconduct, vetting and performance systems. We anticipate that it could take some time for a sufficient number of cases, commenced under any new regulations, to filter through the system to enable analysis to be conducted. 21. However, the Home Office does now publish standalone statistics annually on police misconduct and criminal proceedings. 22. The Home Office remains committed to working with the policing sector to better understand why disparities exist within the dismissals system. This includes better understanding the data, where collecting and reporting the data is vital to ensure an evidenced based approach to any mitigations taken, as well as reassuring the public of the fairness of the dismissals system. This work is ongoing across the policing sector.
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