IOPC power to require management action below misconduct threshold
Jermaine Baker Inquiry · Report into the Death of Jermaine Baker · Issued 5 July 2022 · Addressed to: Home Office
Government responseIndependent Office for Police Conduct: Noted (Oct 2022)Home Office: No response yet (Jul 2022)
DeliveryNo statement from Home Office found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, 15.24
The IOPC should be provided with the power to require a force to take 'management action' in situations that fall short of misconduct but where standards of conduct and/or performance have fallen short of a reasonable public expectation. A force required by the IOPC to carry out such 'management action' should confirm within 28 days of the requirement having been notified that it has been carried out and what it entailed, or else provide a written explanation as to why no action has been taken.
Jermaine Baker Inquiry, Report into the Death of Jermaine Baker · 5 Jul 2022 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
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The Home Office published no formal response to this recommendation following the Home Secretary's written statement of July 2022 (Home Office response, Jul 2022). In October 2022, Danny Simpson, Solicitor for the Independent Office for Police Conduct, stated that 2020 legislative change gave it power to require management action in conduct and complaints investigations, but it was seeking further legislative change to do so in death or serious injury investigations, leaving it for the department to decide whether to agree to the proposal, draft legislation, and secure parliamentary time (Danny Simpson response, Oct 2022).
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Government response
●Independent Office for Police Conduct · Noted · 20 Oct 2022
As explained in the IOPC’s note to the Inquiry dated 17 September 2021 (attached), legislative change in 2020 gave this power for conduct and complaints investigations. It also explained the IOPC is seeking legislative change so that it may also do so in death or serious injury investigations. It will be for the Home Office to decide if to aree with this legislative change proposal and if so, to draft the legislation and secure parliamentary time for it. The IOPC will, of course, contribute in any consultation and assist it in any other way it can.
Response document: Jemaine Baker Public Inquiry (IOPC letter to the Solicitors to the Inquiry)
●Home Office · No response yet · 5 Jul 2022
No formal government response published. The Home Secretary's written statement of 5 July 2022 (HCWS181), made on the day the Inquiry's final report was published, names no recommendation. No later Home Office response to this recommendation was found on GOV.UK, on the Inquiry's website or in Parliament's written statements and questions.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Home Office has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
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