Today the issue of Police misconduct has had huge media attention after the publication yesterday of the Ellison Report and the Home Secretary's statement yesterday to the House of Commons..
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is the body with statutory responsbility for investigating Police misconduct.
As, over the last year or so, I have learned more of how the IPCC works I've become increasingly concerned that it is seriously failing in its duty with respect to the investigation of Police corruption.
Some of those concerns were encapsulated in my letter of complaint regarding the former IPCC Deputy Chair, Deborah Glass (see Is Deborah Glass a fit person to be an IPCC Commissioner?) and my letter of complaint regarding Dame Anne Owers, Chair of the IPCC, (see Is Dame Anne Owers a fit person to be Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission?).
Why the title of the blog?
About 3 years ago I started a blog called Chilcot's Cheating Us which examined the inadequacies of the Iraq Inquiry, chaired by Sir John Chilcot, and later examined in detail the suspicious death of Dr. David Kelly in 2003 and the cover-up by Thames Valley Police and others.
Later I started a blog about how the Police cheat us, so that was called The Police are cheating us.
As I learned more about how the Police are cheating us I began to realise that the failings of the Independent Police Complaints Commision make it easy for the Police to commit misconduct and get away with it.
I don't believe that the Police should get away with misconduct.
Nor do I think that the IPCC should be deficient in competence and deficient in honesty without it being noticed and publicised.
Hence this blog.
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