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22/04/99
- Reply from letter to Home Secretary
Metropolitan Police Committee
Clive House
Petty France
London SW1H 9HD
Telephone: 0171-271 8359
Fax: 0171-271 8369
Secretariat
Mr O'Mahoney
22 April, 1999
Dear Mr O'Mahoney
Thank you for your letter of 2 March to the Home Secretary
about your concern over the handling of the murder of Alison
Shaughessy by the Metropolitan Police. Your letter has been
passed to the Metropolitan Police Committee the Home Secretary's
advisory board in his role as police authority.
I have been asked to reply. The Metropolitan Police, in
common with other police forces in England and Wales, are
bound by the Police Discipline Regulations and the Complaints
and Discipline procedures as set out in the Police and Criminal
Evidence Act 1984. Under Section 84 of the Act the police
have a duty to investigate a complaint made by a member
of the public.
An independent body, the Police Complaints Authority, supervises
police complaints. If you wish to make a complaint about
police officers this would best be dealt with under this
procedure. In order to start this procedure you, or someone
acting on your behalf, will need to make a formal complaint.
This can be done either in person or in writing to any police
station. Complaints and discipline are an internal matter
for the Commissioner of Police to decide upon Government
Ministers have no power to intervene in this process. I
hope that this is helpful.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Kelk |
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