Training for officers presenting firearms court applications
Jermaine Baker Inquiry · Report into the Death of Jermaine Baker · Issued 5 July 2022 · Addressed to: College of Policing
Government responseCriminal Procedure Rule Committee: Accepted in part (Oct 2022)
DeliveryNo statement from College of Policing found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, 15.22
There should be training of those who are authorised by reason of rank to present such applications at court, and no-one should act as a substitute for a properly authorised person unless they have been appropriately trained. In any event, a copy of the Rules should be readily available in every chief inspector's office with which any officer making an application should be familiar (as is the case with Special Procedure Material applications).
Jermaine Baker Inquiry, Report into the Death of Jermaine Baker · 5 Jul 2022 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
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The Inquiry recommended training for officers presenting court applications and making rules readily available. In October 2022, Lord Justice Holroyde, deputy chairman of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee, on behalf of the Committee, agreed that the relevant directions should be readily available to police officers (Lord Justice Holroyde response, Oct 2022). Writing in October 2022, he stated that the directions had appeared for some years on websites maintained by the Judicial Office and the Ministry of Justice (Lord Justice Holroyde response, Oct 2022). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of October 2022 (Lord Justice Holroyde response, Oct 2022).
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Government response
●Criminal Procedure Rule Committee · Accepted in part · 31 Oct 2022
We certainly concur in the Inquiry’s recommendation that the relevant Directions should be readily available to police officers. For some years now they have appeared on at least two websites, each of which is accessible to members of the public, one maintained by the Judicial Office and the other by the Ministry of Justice.
Response document: Criminal Procedure Rule Committee: response to recommendation of the Public Inquiry into the death of Jermaine Baker
Delivery
No statement on delivery from College of Policing has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
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