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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Andrew Kersley

Police ‘enabling dangerous officers’ with high rate of complaint failures in England and Wales

Two Metropolitan police officers in hi-vis jackets seen from behind
Almost half the police forces in England and Wales had their internal inquiries into complaints by the public overturned by an independent review. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Campaigners are calling for the police to be stopped from “marking their own homework”, after the Observer found 40% of internal investigations by forces into serious complaints were overturned following independent reviews.

This newspaper identified 1,532 finalised complaint cases from April 2022 to March 2023 involving forces in England and Wales where the outcome was found to be “not reasonable and proportionate” after a review.

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