Police Service: HMI Report Debate

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Police Service: HMI Report

Tonia Antoniazzi Excerpts
Thursday 3rd November 2022

(2 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tonia Antoniazzi Portrait Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower) (Lab)
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The report states that hundreds, if not thousands, of officers who should have failed vetting are now working in police forces across the country, including mine. What measures will he take to identify those individuals and take action?

Chris Philp Portrait Chris Philp
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There is already a process of periodic re-vetting of serving police officers. One of the 43 recommendations in the report published yesterday is to do that re-vetting more frequently, and that is with police chiefs as we speak.