Ensure Senior Investigating Officers provide comprehensive information and manage family liaison.
Macpherson Inquiry · Macpherson Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 24 February 1999
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
That Senior Investigating Officers and Family Liaison Officers be made aware that good practice and their positive duty shall be the satisfactory management of family liaison, together with the provision to a victim's family of all possible information about the crime and its investigation.
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Response — verbatim from government
●No formal government response recorded
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Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
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