Doreen Lawrence backs duty on police to disclose phone data

Doreen Lawrence said she was concerned by the ‘slow pace of reform’ to police regulations. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images

Police officers under investigation for discipline offences should have to hand over data from their personal mobile phones, Doreen Lawrence has said.

Concerns have been raised that government attempts to streamline and reform the system for rooting out bad officers are too slow and being delayed.