Media Relations
Recommendations related to media relations
4
Recommendations
100% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (4)
Recommendations in This Theme
recommendation across 2 inquiries
Across 2 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
4 total
DM-8
Accepted
Daniel Morgan Panel
Guidance on disclosing material to journalists
Guidance should be issued by the Metropolitan Police to enable officers to determine whether it is appropriate, necessary and lawful to disclose investigative material to journalists. That guidance should include …
Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.
Metropolitan Police Serv…
L75
Accepted
Leveson Inquiry
Discontinue Off-the-record Term
The term 'off-the-record briefing' should be discontinued. The term 'non-reportable briefing' should be used to cover a background briefing which is not to be reported, and the term 'embargoed briefing' …
- The College of Policing published Authorised Professional Practice (APP) on media relations, which includes guidance on the conduct of briefings and the terms under …
National Police Chiefs C…
Police
L76
Accepted
Leveson Inquiry
ACPO Media Contact Recording
It should be mandatory for ACPO rank officers to record all of their contact with the media, and for that record to be available publicly for transparency and audit purposes. …
- The College of Policing Authorised Professional Practice on media relations requires chief officers to record contacts with the media and for these records to …
Police
National Police Chiefs C…
L77
Accepted
Leveson Inquiry
Police Media Contact Rule
The simple rule included within the 'Interim ACPO Guidance for Relationships with the Media' should be adopted as good practice. This is: "Police officers and staff should ask: 'am I …
- The College of Policing published Authorised Professional Practice (APP) on media relations which adopted the principle that officers should consider whether there is a …
National Police Chiefs C…
Police