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Commissioner to Appoint Debrief Officer

Azelle Rodney Inquiry · The Report of the Azelle Rodney Inquiry · Issued 5 July 2013 · Addressed to: Metropolitan Police Service

Government responseMetropolitan Police Service: Accepted (Jun 2014)

DeliveryNo statement from Metropolitan Police Service found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

It is that in the event of a shooting by an MPS officer that results in death or serious injury, the Commissioner should thereupon appoint a senior officer to conduct a full, operational debriefing.

Azelle Rodney Inquiry, The Report of the Azelle Rodney Inquiry · 5 Jul 2013 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

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The Inquiry asked police to appoint a senior officer to debrief serious shootings. In June 2014, the Metropolitan Police Service accepted the recommendation in Commander Neil Basu's review, stating that organisational learning debriefs formed part of its operating protocols and that three debriefs had been conducted while developing a national model, though the appointment of a senior officer is not mentioned in the sources (Metropolitan Police Service response, Jun 2014). In August 2014, Deputy Chief Constable Simon Chesterman, the National Association of Chief Police Officers Lead for Armed Policing, reported that the force had worked with the College of Policing to produce approved practice for debriefs in death or serious injury cases (Simon Chesterman, Aug 2014).

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Government response

●Metropolitan Police Service · Accepted · 3 Jun 2014

Words of: Metropolitan Police Service, conclusions of Commander Neil Basu's review, in the Metropolitan Police Service review of the Azelle Rodney Inquiry recommendations, to Sir Christopher Holland, 2014

This is directly linked to the point at 23.19 and forms part of the operating protocols for organisational learning debriefs. It is accepted. AC Rowley’s response to you in relation to DCC Chesterman’s national recommendation 3 is reproduced below but has moved on as stated above. There have been 3 debriefs and we are closer to finalising the national model for APP, which we think will be based on our interim model currently within our own MPS Manual of Guidance.

Response document: Metropolitan Police Service review of the Azelle Rodney Inquiry recommendations

Site note: This document is on the Inquiry's own website, which closed in 2015. The link is to the UK Government Web Archive capture of 6 April 2015, the only copy on the public record. The review is a two-column table, so the passage is taken from a table-aware extraction: a line-based one interleaves the columns and scatters the sentence. The table row this passage sits in is keyed to the Inquiry report paragraph that carries the recommendation.

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Metropolitan Police Service has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

What other bodies have found

In their own words. These do not change the delivery statement above.

●Association of Chief Police Officers · 12 Aug 2014

The Metropolitan Police Service, College of Policing and the National ACPO Lead for Armed Policing have worked together to produce approved practice for conducting Organisational Learning Debriefs in Death or Serious Injury Cases. We recognise that previous practice of only conducting debriefs in exceptional circumstances limited our ability to learn from experience in a timely manner. Whilst it is imperative to allow an independent investigation to progress we should act, as soon as practicable, in order to identify areas which can help improve public safety. Conducting a debrief in controlled circumstances is a way of achieving that purpose.

From: Comment by DCC Simon Chesterman for Publication on the Azelle Rodney Inquiry Website to Accompany the Organisational Learning Debrief Note, Authorised Professional Practice in Death or Serious Injury Cases, Simon Chesterman

Site note: This document is on the Inquiry's own website, which closed in 2015. The link is to the UK Government Web Archive capture of 6 April 2015, the only copy on the public record. The passage is from DCC Simon Chesterman's comment, published as the National ACPO Lead for Armed Policing, which names the Metropolitan Police Service, the College of Policing and the National ACPO Lead as its authors. The site files it under the Association of Chief Police Officers, the body its author signed for.

Site note: The source gives this passage once, for recommendations 2 and 3 together. The same words are recorded on AR-2 and AR-3.

●Azelle Rodney Inquiry · 2 May 2014

The MPS with the College of Policing, and in consultation with the IPCC, has drafted an extensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) covering the procedures for conducting organisational learning debriefs in cases of 'Death or Serious Injury' (DSI) following police contact which are referred to the IPCC. ACPO will seek to ratify this SOP w/c 12 May 2014 at the Armed Policing National Working Group. The MPS is already in the process of implementing the changes through a working group with its Directorate of Professional Standards.

From: Azelle Rodney Inquiry: Recommendations Update

Site note: This document is on the Inquiry's own website, which closed in 2015. The link is to the UK Government Web Archive capture of 6 April 2015, the only copy on the public record.

Site note: The source gives this passage once, for recommendations 2 and 3 together. The same words are recorded on AR-2 and AR-3.

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