Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that serving Metropolitan Police officers who are under investigation are not on operational duties.

Decisions on whether to suspend a police officer are taken independently of government by Chief Constables.

Prior to suspending an officer, Chief Constables must, by law, have considered temporary redeployment to either alternative duties or an alternative location as to an alternative to suspension.