Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the announcement by the Independent Office for Police Conduct in April 2022 that the officers involved in the stop and search of Bianca Williams and Ricardo de Santos in July 2020 will face disciplinary proceedings for gross misconduct, when those proceedings will begin.

The Home Office does not hold this information.

For the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), once an officer has been referred to a misconduct hearing, it is the responsibility of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to appoint an independent legally qualified chair (LQC).

Management of misconduct hearings, once established, is then the responsibility of the LQC. Hearings must commence within 100 days of the officer being referred, unless the LQC determines that it is necessary to extend this period in the interests of justice.