We recommend the Home Office work with the Ministry of Justice in considering amendments to the Victims and Prisoners Bill to clarify rights for police officers who are themselves the victims of police-perpetrated crime. The Home Office should work with the Independent Office for Police Conduct to ascertain how police complainants could be afforded similar rights to other complainants and whether this would require amending the Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2020. Any necessar...

We recommend the Home Office work with the Ministry of Justice in considering amendments to the Victims and Prisoners Bill to clarify rights for police officers who are themselves the victims of police-perpetrated crime. The Home Office should work with the Independent Office for Police Conduct to ascertain how police complainants could be afforded similar rights to other complainants and whether this would require amending the Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2020. Any necessary changes to the Regulations should be completed with the current Parliament. Type: recommendation | Number: 23 | Paragraph: 60 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: 56. The investigation into the supercomplaint on section 60 stop and search is a matter for HMICFRS, together with the IOPC and College of Policing. The Home Office welcomes the report on the supercomplaint, which was published on 15 December. The report makes a number of recommendations for the Hom