#iopc — Public Fediverse posts

What's the use of a police watchdog that will not even consider the possiblity of racial bias in a horrific case like this?

Actor Reece Richards condemns police watchdog over race decision on arrest | Independent Office for Police Conduct | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/30/actor-reece-richards-condemns-police-watchdog-over-race-decision-on-arrest

#ReeceRichards #MetropolitanPolice #Racism #Police #IndependentOffoceForPoliceConduct #IOPC #RacialBias

Police are ‘trivialising stalking’ and letting victims down as figures show one in five women are targeted | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/stalking-report-police-watchdog-iopc-b2619959.html

#Stalking
#Police
#SuzyLamplughTrust
#NationalStalkingConsortium
#ONS
#IOPC
#StalkingProtectionOrder
#CollegeOfPolicing
#LondonsVictimsCommissioner
#NationalPoliceChiefsCouncil
#CPS
#Phillips

Woman cleared over ‘#coconut’ placard calls on #IOPC to investigate #Met

Exclusive: #MariehaHussain asks police watchdog to look into claim the force pursued a politicised case against her
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/23/woman-cleared-over-coconut-placard-marieh-hussain-calls-on-iopc-to-investigate-met

@Lazarou Thete is no excuse whatsoever for ramming this calf. Not a cow, as has been reported. Whichever cop drove that car, and whomever gave the order to ram it must be expelled from #Surreypolice forthwith. If #IOPC does not force this outcome, it has no credibility, and will be seen as a police lackey. #animalcruelty #cops #police #Surreypolice #policebrutality

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (#IOPC) has started an investigation into complaints about #NottinghamshirePolice’s previous contact with #ValdoCalocane and their handling of the #murder investigation following the deaths of three people in Nottingham in June last year (2023). https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/news/iopc-investigate-nottinghamshire-police-contact-valdo-calocane-three-people-killed
#Police

Police left children at mercy of grooming gangs in Rochdale, review finds - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-67967919

#Police
#GroomingGangs
#Rochdale
#Paedophilies
#GreaterManchesterPolice
#GMP
#RochdaleCouncil
#ChildSexualExploitation
#CSE
#Burnham
#Newsam
#Rowbotham
#Watson
#IndependentOfficeForPoliceConduct
#IOPC

Wiltshire police to review thousands of checks on suspected violent partners | Domestic violence | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/26/wiltshire-police-review-thousands-clares-law-checks-suspected-violent-partners

#DomesticAbuse
#DomesticViolence
#WiltshirePolice
#ClaresLaw
#IOPC
#IndependentOfficeForPoliceConduct

Two Met officers guilty of gross misconduct stop and search of Black athletes Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/met-police-misconduct-bianca-williams-b2435668.html

#MET
#StopAndSearch
#BiancaWilliams
#RicardoDosSantos
#Racism
#DrivingWhileBlack
#DWB
#IndependentOfficeForPoliceConduct
#IOPC

Family of black boy rammed by #Met police car win fight for #IOPC inquiry

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/20/family-of-black-boy-rammed-by-met-police-car-win-fight-for-iopc-inquiry

> Watchdog to investigate why 13-year-old with water pistol was knocked off bike by armed police in #Hackney

Met police request support from army after officers down firearms | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/24/met-police-requests-support-from-army-after-officers-turn-in-firearms

#MET
#ArmedPolice
#FireArms
#FireArmsHandIn
#SAS
#Police
#CounterTerrorism
#Braverman
#Murder
#ChrisKaba
#Rowley
#MOD
#NX121
#Inquest
#IndependentOfficeForPoliceConduct
#IOPC
#CPS
#PoliceFederation
#1996PoliceAct

#Police watchdog apologises to sister of black man who died in custody in 2008

#IOPC apologises ‘unreservedly’ to #MarciaRigg, whose brother #Sean died after being restrained in #Brixton

Deborah Coles, the director of the #DeathsInCustody charity #Inquest, “Fifteen years on and with no one properly held to account, this case provides a stark reminder of how the mechanisms for holding police to account are not fit for purpose.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/08/iopc-apologises-marcia-rigg-black-man-sean-rigg-died-police-custody
#SeanRigg

#StephenLawrence inquiry should have received more from #Met, #IOPC found

Watchdog identified further details that ‘could and should’ have been handed over to #MacphersonInquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/26/stephen-lawrence-inquiry-should-have-received-more-from-met-iopc-found #Police #racism

Police spit hood and handcuff ‘distressed’ 91-year-old woman after threatening to taser her | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/taser-met-police-woman-b2348155.html

#Police
#Elderly
#Taser
#WhenIsAnArrestNotAnArrest
#IOPC
#MentalHealth
#Distressed

#BBC News - #IOPC investigator quit over Bianca #Williams stop and search case
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64304500 - story by Sima Kotecha and Hannah Barnes
#BlackMastodon

Police watchdog investigator quit over Bianca Williams stop and search complaint - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/18/police-watchdog-investigator-quit-bianca-williams-stop-search-complaint #Met #IOPC #Corruption

Does the #IOPC ('Independent Office for #Police Conduct') in #GB actually work, in the sense of calling cops to account?

Or is it more of an image campaign?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Office_for_Police_Conduct

(since 8 January 2018, responsible for overseeing the system for handling complaints made against #police forces in England and Wales)