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Police records under Public Records Act 1958

Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: Home Office

Source — verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

The Panel recommends that police force records are brought under legislative control and that police forces are added to Part II of the First Schedule to the Public Records Act 1958, thereby making them subject to the supervision of the Keeper of Public Records.

Hillsborough Panel, Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · 12 Sep 2012 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:

Government response: No Response. Last substantive update was December 2012. No recent public evidence of further progress.

Sources

Government response (2012-12-01): no_response Text: No formal government response published. The Hillsborough documents disclosed by the Panel were transferred to The National Archives, but a broader review of police records treatment under the Public Records Act 1958 has not been formally announced. Progress update (2012-12-01): In Progress No formal government response published. The Hillsborough documents disclosed by the Panel were transferred to The National Archives, but a broader review of police records treatment under the Public Records Act 1958 has not been formally announced.
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Response — verbatim from government

●Home Office

No formal government response published. The Hillsborough documents disclosed by the Panel were transferred to The National Archives, but a broader review of police records treatment under the Public Records Act 1958 has not been formally announced.

Home Office · 1 Dec 2012

Evidence trail — what's actually happened since

No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.

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