Recommendation 4

Each complaint has unique features, and we have heard from a significant number of people whose dealings with police forces, the IOPC or its predecessor have left them unsatisfied with the investigation of their complaints or the level of sanction applied to officers found to have misconducted themselves. This includes cases of people whose family members or friends have died as a result of police operations, and who are aggrieved at the outcome of subsequent investigations that they feel do not match the severity of what happened to them. Those people do not have the advantage of high profile or a platform that leads to publicity for their cases. Their accounts may be found in the written evidence published on our website.