Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 4
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Deferred
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Many complainants remain unsatisfied with police and IOPC investigations into officer misconduct and sanctions applied.
Conclusion
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.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government agreed on the need for transparency but is not minded to prescribe new legal formats, deferring to existing frameworks and the independence of bodies like the IOPC, police, and CPS. It noted work already underway by these bodies and committed to keep the recommendation under review.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government also notes the Committee’s concerns that, based on some of the evidence it has seen and heard, the work of “providing—and demonstrably providing—a fair, open and, above all, fully trusted mechanism to deal with misconduct remains, as yet unfinished”. The Government agrees that improving the police complaints and discipline systems is an ongoing process and notes the findings on recent high-profile police conduct cases.
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