Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police officers retain the trust of the public to keep them safe while both on duty and off duty.

The vast majority of police officers serve with utmost integrity to earn the public’s trust. This trust is crucial to our model of policing by consent and why we continue to take steps to ensure police officers are subject to rigorous vetting procedures and held to the highest professional standards. Last year, we legislated to carry out a major overhaul of the police complaints and discipline systems to increase their accountability, transparency and efficiency. These reforms included further measures to increase the effectiveness of the Independent Office for Police Conduct. We continue to keep these matters under review.