Reports & recommendations
23 recommendations, each with the government response on the record. Filter by government response or delivery status.
Reports (1)
| Title | Volume | Publication Date | Recommendations | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel | - | 15 Jun 2021 | 23 |
Recommendations (3)
Regulation of private investigators
The Government should act on its stated intention in 2013 to require licensing measures, introduce legislation to ensure the creation and use of standards, and implement the recommendation in the 2016 review concerning the regulation of private investigators.
In June 2023, the Home Office noted positive steps taken by the private investigator sector towards raising standards through the Association of British Investigators' draft Code of Conduct, stating that it would "keep under review the need to extend regulation to introduce a new regime" (Home Office response, Jun 2023; Home Office, Jun 2023). The record holds no update since the department's response of June 2023 (Home Office response, Jun 2023; Home Office, Jun 2023).
Register membership of organisations like Freemasons
All police officers and police staff should be obliged to register in confidence with the Chief Officer of their police force, at either their point of recruitment to the police force or at any point subsequent to their recruitment, their membership of any organisation, including the Freemasons, which might call their impartiality into question or give rise to the perception of a conflict of loyalties.
The Panel recommended requiring police officers and staff to register memberships, including the Freemasons. The Home Office stated in June 2023 that policing still needed to consider how to register potential conflicts of interest, noting a lack of evidence that legislation would resolve the issue while policing partners assessed conflicts as part of reviewing counter-corruption authorised professional practice (APP) (Home Office response, Jun 2023; Home Office, Jun 2023). In February 2026, Mr Justice Chamberlain noted in an Administrative Court judgment that an inter-agency working group concluded there was "no evidence base that Freemasonry is a significant factor in police corruption" (Mr Justice Chamberlain, Feb 2026).
Statutory duty of candour for law enforcement
The Panel recommends the creation of a statutory duty of candour, to be owed by all law enforcement agencies to those whom they serve, subject to protection of national security and relevant data protection legislation.
The Panel recommended creating a statutory duty of candour for all law enforcement agencies. In April 2025, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, answered that the Government remains "fully committed to bringing legislation forward at pace", including a legal duty of candour for public servants, though national security and data protection legislation were not mentioned (Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Apr 2025). Earlier, in a November 2023 factsheet, the Home Office and the department stated that an organisational duty of candour for chief officers would complement an existing statutory duty of cooperation for individual police officers (Home Office and Ministry of Justice, Nov 2023).