Police investigation management
Risk of replication of past management failures in police investigations due to absence of systems ensuring compliance.
111 items
1 source
20 inquiries
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Inquiry recommendation
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DM-3 - Prevent replication of Abelard Two management failures
It is recommended that the Metropolitan Police introduce systems to ensure that the management arrangements which applied during the Abelard Two Investigation can never be replicated in any future investigation, and that proper management arrangements, in compliance with the Association of Chief Police Officers' Murder Manual, exist on all occasions.
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terms: investigation, management, police
Inquiry recommendation
74match
82 - Metropolitan Police investigation into Lambeth Council
The Metropolitan Police Service should consider whether there are grounds for a criminal investigation into Lambeth Council's actions when providing information to the coroner about the circumstances surrounding LA-A2's death.
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terms: investigation, police
Inquiry recommendation
74match
WATE-(19) - Establish senior officer liaison with police for child abuse investigations
Whenever a police investigation follows upon a complaint of abuse of a looked after child, the senior officer referred to in recommendation (18) or another senior officer assigned for the specific purpose should establish and maintain close liaison with the senior investigating officer appointed by the police for that investigation and the local authority's officer should be kept...
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terms: investigation, police
Inquiry recommendation
74match
LAMI-99 - Amend Working Together for police to exclusively conduct child criminal investigations.
The Working Together arrangements must be amended to ensure the police carry out completely, and exclusively, any criminal investigation elements in a case of suspected injury or harm to a child, including the evidential interview with a child victim. This will remove any confusion about which agency takes the ‘lead’ or is responsible for certain actions.
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terms: investigation, police
Inquiry recommendation
65match
LAMI-93 - Require manager involvement from both agencies in joint child harm investigations.
Whenever a joint investigation by police and social services is required into possible injury or harm to a child, a manager from each agency should always be involved at the referral stage, and in any further strategy discussion.
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terms: investigation, police
Inquiry recommendation
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R88 - PSNI investigation file review processes
PSNI needs to improve its processes for the review of live investigation files, and have an effective escalation process when progress is delayed. PSNI should consider how it assures the quality of the reviews of live investigation files. Senior officers should assess a significant sample of reviews to ensure all possible action has been taken to conclude the...
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terms: investigation
Inquiry recommendation
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LAMI-96 - Review police protection systems for Children Act compliance and designated inspector officer.
Police forces must review their systems for taking children into police protection and ensure they comply with the Children Act 1989 and Home Office guidelines. In particular, they must ensure that an independent officer of at least inspector rank acts as the designated officer in all cases.
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terms: police
Inquiry recommendation
60match
DM-20 - HOLMES access for independent panels
All independent panels and inquiries examining police investigations should be given full access to the associated HOLMES accounts at their secure premises when they begin their work.
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terms: investigation, police
Inquiry recommendation
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DM-5 - Separate SIO and Family Liaison Officer roles
The Metropolitan Police should ensure that the role of the Family Liaison Officer is never carried out by the Senior Investigating Officer of an investigation. There is an inherent conflict between these two roles.
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terms: investigation, police
Inquiry recommendation
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MACP-4 - Conduct immediate HMIC inspection of Metropolitan Police Service, including undetected murders.
That in order to restore public confidence an inspection by HMIC of the Metropolitan Police Service be conducted forthwith. The inspection to include examination of current undetected HOLMES based murders and Reviews into such cases.
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terms: police
Inquiry recommendation
57match
HIDD-91 - Ensure fault finding teams are accompanied by police and photographer for evidence
BR fault finding teams shall report to the Railway Incident Officer who, in consultation with the Police Incident Officer, shall ensure, in all but the most exceptional circumstances, that the team is accompanied by a police officer and a photographer to provide for the proper recording and retention of evidence.
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terms: police
Inquiry recommendation
57match
SP28 - Recording case information on police systems
Lancashire Constabulary should ensure its training and systems address the risks associated with failing to record case information on police systems so it is readily available to others. The National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing should consider whether further national guidance is required.
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terms: police
Inquiry recommendation
57match
LAMI-94 - Require supervisory officers to actively ensure proper investigation of serious child crimes.
In cases of serious crime against children, supervisory officers must, from the beginning, take an active role in ensuring that a proper investigation is carried out.
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terms: investigation
Inquiry recommendation
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MACP-34 - Ensure racist motivation evidence is recognised and included at all prosecution stages.
That Police Services and the CPS should ensure that particular care is taken at all stages of prosecution to recognise and to include reference to any evidence of racist motivation. In particular it should be the duty of the CPS to ensure that such evidence is referred to both at trial and in the sentencing process (including Newton...
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terms: police
Inquiry recommendation
53match
3 - Disapply 12-month limit for CSA police complaints
The Chair and Panel recommend that the National Police Chiefs' Council ensures that complaints relating to child sexual abuse are no longer 'disapplied' by police forces on the grounds that the incident involved took place more than 12 months before the complaint was submitted.
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Inquiry recommendation
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LAMI-98 - Social services must inform police immediately of child criminal offence referrals.
The guideline set out at paragraph 5.8 of Working Together must be strictly adhered to: whenever social services receive a referral which may constitute a criminal offence against a child, they must inform the police at the earliest opportunity.
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Inquiry recommendation
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LAMI-97 - Ensure child crime investigation is equal to other serious crime investigations.
Chief constables must ensure that the investigation of crime against children is as important as the investigation of any other form of serious crime. Any suggestion that child protection policing is of a lower status than other forms of policing must be eradicated.
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terms: investigation
Inquiry recommendation
48match
77 - CSA experience for Chief Officer progression
The Chair and Panel recommend that any police officer (or staff equivalent) who wants to progress to the Chief Officer cadre must first be required to: have operational policing experience in preventing and responding to child sexual abuse; and achieve accreditation in the role of the police service in preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. The Home...
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Inquiry recommendation
48match
MACP-31 - Ensure training and use of victim/witness liaison officers for racist incidents.
That Police Services ensure the provision of training and the availability of victim/witness liaison officers, and ensure their use in appropriate areas particularly in the field of racist incidents and crimes, where the need for a sensitive approach to young and vulnerable victims and witnesses is paramount.
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Inquiry recommendation
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MACP-29 - Develop guidelines for handling victims and witnesses, especially in racist incidents.
That Police Services should together with the Home Office develop guidelines as to the handling of victims and witnesses, particularly in the field of racist incidents and crimes. The Victim's Charter to be reviewed in this context.
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terms: police
Inquiry recommendation
48match
DM-8 - 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 a requirement to record by whom, to whom and when any such evidence was disclosed, who authorised the disclosure, the reasons for the disclosure of the material, and...
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terms: police
Inquiry recommendation
48match
SP31 - Response officer access to case information technology
1. Lancashire Constabulary should ensure response officers have access to effective technology providing clear, essential case information. 2. The National Police Chiefs’ Council, College of Policing and Home Office should review whether current policing information systems, particularly the limitations on cross‑force access, are suitable for modern policing needs.
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Inquiry recommendation
48match
SP27 - Cross-force information sharing review
Lancashire Constabulary and Merseyside Police should review the effectiveness of their information‑sharing systems and consider whether a more robust process is required. Findings should be shared with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing for consideration as to whether national level guidance is appropriate.
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Inquiry recommendation
45match
COVID-M2.4 - Publish Technical Advice During Emergencies
During a whole-system civil emergency, the UK government and devolved administrations should each routinely publish technical advice on scientific, economic and social matters at the earliest opportunity, as well as the minutes of expert advisory groups – except where there are good reasons that prevent publication, such as commercial confidentiality, personal safety or national security, or because legal...
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COVID-M1.9 - External Red Teams for Resilience
The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each introduce the use of red teams in the Civil Service to scrutinise and challenge the principles, evidence, policies and advice relating to preparedness for and resilience to whole-system civil emergencies. The red teams should be brought in from outside of government and the Civil Service.
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COVID-M1.5 - Pandemic Data Systems and Research
The UK government, working with the devolved administrations, should establish mechanisms for the timely collection, analysis, secure sharing and use of reliable data for informing emergency responses, in advance of future pandemics. Data systems should be tested in pandemic exercises. The UK government should also commission a wider range of research projects ready to commence in the event...
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COVID-M1.4 - UK-wide Civil Emergency Strategy
The UK government and devolved administrations should together introduce a UK-wide whole-system civil emergency strategy (which includes pandemics) to prevent each emergency and also to reduce, control and mitigate its effects. The strategy should: be adaptable; include sections dedicated to each potential whole-system civil emergency; consider a wide range of potential scenarios for each type of emergency; identify...
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COVID-M1.1 - Simplify Emergency Preparedness Structures
The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each simplify and reduce the number of structures with responsibility for preparing for and building resilience to whole-system civil emergencies. The core structures should be: a single Cabinet-level or equivalent ministerial committee (including the senior minister responsible for health and social care) responsible for whole-system civil emergency...
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LAMI-95 - ACPO must produce and implement standards-based child protection service.
The Association of Chief Police Officers must produce and implement the standards-based service, as recommended by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in the 1999 thematic inspection report, Child Protection.
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Inquiry recommendation
41match
7 - Introduce 28-day maximum time limit on detention
The government must introduce in legislation a maximum 28-day time limit on any individual's detention within an immigration removal centre.
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Inquiry recommendation
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3 - Limit cell occupancy to maximum two people
The Home Office must ensure that a maximum of two detained people are accommodated in each cell at Brook House.
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Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M2.2 - Devolved Nations SAGE Attendance
The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should invite the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to nominate a small number of representatives to attend meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) from the outset of any future emergency. The status of those representatives as either 'participant' or 'observer' should depend upon their expertise and should...
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Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M1.7 - Publish Exercise Reports and Lessons
For all civil emergency exercises, the governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each (unless there are reasons of national security for not doing so): publish an exercise report summarising the findings, lessons and recommendations, within three months of the conclusion of the exercise; publish an action plan setting out the specific steps that will...
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COVID-M1.6 - Triennial Pandemic Exercises
The UK government and devolved administrations should together hold a UK-wide pandemic response exercise at least every three years. The exercise should: test the UK-wide, cross-government, national and local response to a pandemic at all stages, from the initial outbreak to multiple waves over a number of years; include a broad range of those involved in pandemic preparedness...
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COVID-M1.3 - Improved Risk Assessment Approach
The UK government and devolved administrations should work together on developing a new approach to risk assessment that moves away from a reliance on single reasonable worst-case scenarios towards an approach that: assesses a wider range of scenarios representative of the different risks and the range of each kind of risk; considers the prevention and mitigation of an...
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POH-19 - Publish restorative justice programme by 31 October 2025
By 31 October 2025, the Department, Fujitsu and the Post Office shall publish, either separately or together, a report outlining any agreed programme of restorative justice and/or any actions taken by that date to produce such a programme. For the avoidance of any doubt, the word Fujitsu in this recommendation is intended to include both Fujitsu Services Limited...
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POH-18 - Devise redress process for affected family members
The Department shall devise a process for providing financial redress to close family members of those most adversely affected by Horizon. Such family members shall qualify for such redress only if they themselves, have suffered serious adverse consequences by reason of their family relationship with the person or persons directly affected by Horizon.
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POH-17 - Establish standing public body to administer future redress schemes
As soon as is reasonably practicable, HM Government shall establish a standing public body which shall, when called upon to do so, devise, administer and deliver schemes for providing financial redress to persons who have been wronged by public bodies.
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POH-13 - Close HSS Dispute Resolution Procedure when HSSA opens
The current Dispute Resolution Procedure in HSS should be closed once all claimants currently within the Procedure have either (a) settled their claims or (b) transferred to HSSA. No claimant who is not in the Dispute Resolution Procedure when HSSA opens should be eligible to join the Dispute Resolution Procedure.
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POH-11 - Apply best offer principle equally in GLOS
The "best offer" principle which will apply in HSSA, as explained in response to Recommendation 10, shall be equally applicable in GLOS.
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MACP-37 - Fully record and disclose prosecution discontinuance decisions to victims or families.
That the CPS ensure that all decisions to discontinue any prosecution should be carefully and fully recorded in writing, and that save in exceptional circumstances, such written decisions should be disclosable to a victim or a victim's family.
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MACP-36 - CPS must personally notify victims and families of discontinuance decisions sensitively.
That the CPS should have the positive duty always to notify a victim and victim's family personally of a decision to discontinue, particularly in cases of racist crime, with speed and sensitivity.
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MACP-35 - Consult and inform victims or families about any proposal to discontinue proceedings.
That the CPS ensure that a victim or victim's family shall be consulted and kept informed as to any proposal to discontinue proceedings.
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MACP-33 - Establish a rebuttable presumption for prosecution in the public interest test.
That the CPS should consider that, in deciding whether a criminal prosecution should proceed, once the CPS evidential test is satisfied there should be a rebuttable presumption that the public interest test should be in favour of prosecution.
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AR-3 - Commissioner to Appoint Debrief Officer
In the event of a shooting by an MPS officer that results in death or serious injury, the Commissioner should thereupon appoint a senior officer to conduct a full, operational debriefing. The officer must have sufficient seniority to not be inhibited from critical appraisal of involved units including CO19. The appointment should be made immediately following the incident...
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AR-1 - Full Review of Operation Tayport
I recommend that, as soon as is reasonably practicable, the MPS undertake a full, thorough review of all aspects of Operation Tayport. The review should be conducted by a senior officer appointed by the Commissioner with no inhibitions about critical examination of the conduct of SCD7, SCD11, and CO19. The object of the exercise is to serve the...
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JB-15.16 - Requirements for sustained public protection operations
APP-AP should be amended to cover the following: a. Sustained public protection should never be the object of an operation unless and until there is a clearly recorded note of the possible charge(s) that are anticipated, the evidence that will be required to establish guilt, the evidential (and, if appropriate, geographical) tipping points, and the probable sentence –...
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JB-15.7 - Recording and documentation of firearms planning meetings and briefings
MPS Armed Policing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to be amended so that: a. Notes and/or audio recordings should be made of all meetings in relation to general strategy where it is envisaged that firearms may or will be deployed during the course of a planned operation, and training given to explain why it is so important – for...
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JB-15.1 - Clarify separation of SIO and firearms commander roles
There should be clearer guidance from the MPS, College of Policing and/or the NPCC on the separation of roles between the Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) and the Tactical and Strategic Firearms Commanders (TFC and SFC). The guidance should be clear that not only should the SIO and TFC/SFC be different individuals, but the importance of the separation of...
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SP26 - Recording words and behaviour of high-risk individuals
Lancashire Constabulary, and the College of Policing nationally, should ensure that forms and training emphasise the importance of recording, as precisely as possible, the words and behaviour of individuals who may pose a significant risk to others.
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