Training Material Dating and Archiving
Al-Sweady Inquiry · The Report of the Al-Sweady Inquiry · Issued 17 December 2014 · Addressed to: Ministry of Defence
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
All training material should be dated, appropriately retained and archived in such a way that it can easily be established when the training material was composed, when it came into force and the period during which it remained in force.
Al-Sweady Inquiry, The Report of the Al-Sweady Inquiry · 17 Dec 2014 Source PDF →
Response — verbatim from government
●Ministry of Defence
Sir Thayne Forbes has made just nine recommendations, and he acknowledges the progress that the Ministry has made since 2004 to improve all aspects of the prisoner-handling system—from policy and doctrine to unit-level instructions and procedures as well as training and oversight—and to ensure it complies with domestic and international law. I accept all nine recommendations in principle. I have commissioned urgent work on their practical implications—in particular, we will need to ensure that they will not prevent the armed forces from carrying out vital tasks—and I will announce to the House my detailed conclusions as soon as I can.
Ministry of Defence · 17 Dec 2014 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
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