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Police (Misconduct)

01 January 1991

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Police (Misconduct)
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Hansard written answer 9.5.89 Col.380

Mr Douglas Hogg, Minister of State, said in reply to a question
from Denis Skinner that the Home Office has no power to institute
inquiries of one police force by another into allegations of
misconduct. The investigation of such allegations is a matter
for the chief officer of the force concerned, subject to the
provisions of part IX of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act
1984 where a complaint is made by a member of the public.
Prior to the introduction of the 1984 Act, section 49 of the
Police Act 1964 provided for the Secretary of State to direct a
chief officer to request an officer from another force to conduct
a complaints investigation. Figures relating to the number of
occasions when this power was exercised, and the number of
investigations which revealed evidence of misconduct, are not
held centrally, and could only be obtained at disproportionate
cost.

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