Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 7
7
Accepted
Paragraph: 62
Consider police complaints within the ongoing PCC model review and assess PCC involvement
Recommendation
We urge the Government to consider police complaints as part of the review of the PCC model currently under way and to make an early assessment of PCC involvement in the police complaints system.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response focused entirely on the complaints and discipline system reforms it implemented in February 2020, including new statutory duties and IOPC powers. It did not address the recommendation to consider police complaints as part of the ongoing review of the PCC model or assess PCC involvement in the complaints system.
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Paragraph Reference:
62
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
The Government’s review of the PCC model has looked a wide range of issues including public confidence and how PCCs are held to account themselves. The PCCs’ review (Parts 1 Drew Smith, S. (2015) An independent review of the governance arrangements of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. 1 and 2) had clear terms and reference and concluded their work before the Committee published this report on police conduct and complaints. The Home Secretary announced the findings of Part 2 (via a Written Ministerial Statement) on 16 March 2022. So, we cannot now agree to the Committee’s recommendation. However, the Government will in due course, make an assessment of the impact of the reforms to police complaints implemented in February 2020. This will include consideration of the enhanced role for PCCs that the complaints reforms provided for.
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