Watchdog calls for end to ‘adultification’ of black children by police in England and Wales Campaigners welcome IOPC’s recognition of adultification as racial bias but say guidelines to address it do not go far enough

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The police oversight body for England and Wales urged immediate action to prevent the “adultification” of black children by police, yet, as no surprise to any of us, the updated guidelines fell short. Everywhere you go, it's the same #policestory #IOPC

Child hit by Kent Police drone after cable 'not seen' by pilot A child was seriously injured by the police drone, the Air Accident Investigation Branch says.

Child hit by police #drone after cable 'not seen'
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Kent officer launched drone which crashed & injured child after hitting overhead cable.
#DroneTech #AviationTech #TechNews #Policing #AAIB #IOPC

How can an entire year go by and the "investigation" by the Independent Office for Police Conduct into this killing by police is still incomplete?
Is the answer hiding somewhere in the long grass?
#IOPC

Investigation admits that Hillsborough Law will NOT make police face justice Families of victims of the Hillsborough tragedy now have no way of seeing justice done on the police who wronged them, because all those officers are now retired.

People are getting home and checking the news — to find that Hillsborough families will never see justice. A disgrace in the UK in 2025.
#Hillsborough #JusticeForThe97 #IOPC #VoxPolitical
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These poor families ……
Absolutely shameful decisions today in #IOPC report on #Hillsborough
Will these brave and tenacious families EVER get justice?
And as for South Yorkshire Police Federation’s comments?
Utterly despicable and disgraceful.
#c4news #JFT97

Today's statement from the #IOPC reminds me why #acab has such currency. Literally hundreds of police officers lied or allowed their statements to be changed to untruthful accounts, to protect wrongdoers in their own force. WMids officers brought in to investigate assisted the cover-up. 1/3

🚨 #C4News

Another #CSA scandal, this time in #Cleveland. #IOPC failed utterly in its duty. Great ongoing work by @channel4news.bsky.social.

@axrenton.bsky.social #ICYMI

Rugby-based LGBTQ+ group condemns legal challenge accusing police of bias for attending Prides Out-Out Group, an LGBTQ+ organisation based in Rugby, Warwickshire, has spoken up after a legal challenge was raised accusing the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) of bias for participating...

Rugby-based LGBTQ+ group condemns legal challenge accusing police of bias for attending Prides

#LGBTQNews #QueerMedia #OutOut #Warwickshire #Rugby #IOPC #WestMidlands #PrideEvents

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Anyone know how he survives on his £20K naval pension?
The whole shower fucking stinks.
#IOPC

Who is Tamzin Hall? Teenager Who Died After Escaping Police Car on M5 Tamzin Hall death case: 17-year-old from Somerset died after escaping police car on M5 motorway. Avon and Somerset Police under IOPC investigation. Her mother Amy says she was failed by care homes and...

Who is Tamzin Hall? Teenager Who Died After Escaping Police Car on M5
#TamzinHall #Somerset #M5 #AvonAndSomersetPolice #IOPC #CustodyDeath #UKNews #JusticeForTamzin #PoliceInvestigation #BreakingNews
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Britain reassesses "flawed" domestic abuse risk tool - Sight Magazine A month before she was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend, Bethany Fields was not assessed as high risk.

Britain reassesses “flawed” domestic abuse risk tool @sightmagazine.bsky.social #UK #domesticbviolence #familyviolence #intimatepartnerviolence #DASH #SafeLives #Refuge #DomesticAbuseStalkingandHonourBasedViolenceAssessment #IOPC #UK #UKpolice

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UK Watchdog Finds Insufficient Police Training in Child Abuse Case of Murdered 9-Year-Old Alfie Steele | AI News Brew <p>DROITWICH, Worcestershire, UK - The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has concluded that West Mercia Police did not adequately prepare officers to identify signs of child abuse in the ca...

UK Watchdog Finds Insufficient Police Training in Child Abuse Case of Murdered 9-Year-Old Alfie Steele
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#ChildProtection #PoliceTraining #UKWatchdog #JusticeForAlfie #ChildSafety #LawEnforcement #IOPC

Fury among families after senior Hillsborough officers absolved by police watchdog
#Hillsborough #IOPC #BeyondParody

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

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Four officers are under investigation over their contact with Harshita Brella, 24, before her alleged murder by husband Pankaj Lamba.

Two face gross misconduct over delays & poor communication. Lamba is charged but believed to have fled the UK.

#HarshitaBrella #IOPC

I did know.
When I was a policy writer for the Independent Police Complaints commission-IPCC, now #IOPC, we highlighted this for major policy change.
Men and women with #mentalhealth issues were being taken into custody rather than a hospital or other place of saftey. Sadly this is not new.

Swansea police officer Rhodri Davies sacked for hitting man - BBC News Rhodri Davies is sacked without notice for using unreasonable force against Tariq Evans.

So many of these reports around and yet there are many that are ignored and covered up because the #IOPC is only there to protect the Police from accountability.

I recently heard from a man who was abused by the #Police and the IOPC found "nothing" wrong.

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#c4news Wow, Senior police officers not held accountable for corruption? In South Yorkshire? Shock, horror! Hold the front page #IOPC is unfit for purpose.

Post from Mr In-between Channel - YouTube A police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct after letting a member of the public into her home. Former PC Lucy Rowe, based in south Staffordshire, ...

Consistent poor behaviour, and this is not including the hundreds of cases covered up by the #IOPC

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Sacked police officer named after newspaper's High Court challenge

"The articles exposed #Hampshire Constabulary's failure - against its own transparency guidelines – to intervene by challenging Cooke's request for anonymity and revealed how the #IOPC was wrongly blocked from challenging Cooke's request."

PC Terry Cooke 👇

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#Hampshire Police is filled with people like this. And they are protected by their colleagues. The #IOPC refuse to act - and instead protect criminal activity.

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This is probably as useless as the #IOPC, but this site lets you report Police corruption

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MP slams police for paying three £180k salaries - BBC News Devon and Cornwall Police is criticised for paying three chief constables' wages during suspensions.

"She said she had asked the Home Office for funding because the #IOPC could take "weeks, months or even years to conclude their investigations".

Because the IOPC are there to protect the Police, and will kick the can down the street.

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#police #corruption

I've been in contact with somebody who went to the media with evidence of Police #corruption, including evidence the #IOPC is just a protection racket.

The media said "we don't want to upset the #Police"

The Police is a gang.

I have also been given information by a #whistleblower, about a #Police force in the UK.

He has gone to the media and more about the #corruption, and has been ignored. There is widespread corruption that is ignored. The #IOPC is as independent as I am from my eyes.

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PC accused of failing to safeguard woman and lying on police systems Cleveland Police officer Robert Coffey will face a force misconduct hearing next month

This is happening to men and women across the country. I've heard so many stories, and at some point we will name the officers involved seeing as the #IOPC just holds things up, lies, and defends based on lies from colleagues.

#PoliceReform #Domesticabuse

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Merseyside Police: Officer asked doorman to give friend's drugs back - BBC News Sgt Steven Smith claimed he was doing an undercover "test" after a bag of powder was confiscated.

There are thousands of issues across the country. They believe they are above the general public.

These are the cases that are found and acted on. There are cases that are found and hidden, and others that are found and covered up with help from the #IOPC

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Perhaps you could ask Scott Chilton why so many officers across Hampshire are ignoring serious evidence of domestic abuse. One man I spoke to was asked why he can't ignore it. That same man was lied by the #IOPC as they backed their colleagues in the force.

a police officer says " too bad so sad bye-bye " ALT: a police officer says " too bad so sad bye-bye "

UK #Police is the biggest gang in the world.

Officers can what they want, they are protected by colleagues, senior officers, the IOPC and the OPCC.

I have heard hundreds of stories where #Police crimes are swept under the carpet, and victims have to battle the #IOPC to be heard. #PoliceReform

Humberside PCC Jonathan Evison should go if he misled over complaint - MP - BBC News Senior Labour MP Emma Hardy says it is "very important" investigators establish the facts.

People need to understand. The #PPCs are mostly "tied in" to a friendship with the chief constable they have chosen. A failure = reflects badly on the PCC. All the Police and the #PCC and #IOPC do is #coverup

#PoliceReform

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