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#iopc

This outcome may vindicate the bereaved families and survivors who have fought for decades to expose the truth -- but it delivers no justice. Instead, it exposes a system that has allowed officers to simply walk away, retiring without scrutiny, sanction or consequence for failing to meet the standards the public has every right to expect. Yes, the law has now changed so this loophole cannot be used in future.

The force voluntarily referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) but the police watchdog said the referral did not meet the criteria for it to investigate. Cambridgeshire Police Chief Constable Simon Megicks said he commissioned an internal review of the events which occurred prior to Saturday's train attack. The force voluntarily referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) but he added: The referral did not meet the criteria for a valid referral, so they are not investigating the matter.

The officer, known only as W80, shot Jermaine Baker as police stopped a plot to snatch two prisoners from a van near Wood Green crown court in 2015. Misconduct proceedings against W80 began last week at Palestra House after almost a decade of legal wrangling over the case. He was eventually accused of breaching professional standards over the use of force. But on Wednesday the case was dismissed after the panel's chair, Chris McKay, ruled there was no case to answer.

Emma Webber said new allegations about staff at the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) had left families asking whom they could trust. The IOPC is examining the response of police involved in the case of Valdo Calocane, who killed three people. Its investigators are reported to have told Leicestershire police officers who failed to arrest Calocane a month before the stabbings that their disciplinary case was politically motivated and was being driven by the families of the victims.

In a statement relating to the latest incident, a Metropolitan police spokesperson said: On Friday 29 August an officer reported seeing racist graffiti inside Charing Cross police station. Specifically, the graffiti was in a toilet area accessible to officers, staff and other people with access to that part of the building. An investigation was immediately opened into a hate crime and is being carried out in liaison with the directorate of professional standards.

A probe into the Metropolitan Police's handling of allegations against presenter Caroline Flack before her tragic death has been quietly closed by the police watchdog. The Love Island host was accused of assaulting her then-boyfriend, Lewis Burton, with a lamp at her flat in Islington, north London, in December 2019. The Crown Prosecution Service had initially chosen not to charge the 40-year-old star, but this was appealed by officers at the Met, and the decision was overturned.