Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings in the 2022 report, Dangerous Liaisons: UK partnerships with Chinese policing institutions linked to crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, published by Freedom from Torture, on the extent to which required processes for oversight of human rights risk were undertaken by four police forces and the Joint International Police Hub before engaging with London Policing College’s China policing projects.

The London Policing College (LPC) is an independent organisation which includes retired officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and is independent to the Home Office and UK Government. The Home Office has no formal relationship with the LPC.

The Home Office International Police Assistance Service (IPAS) replaced the JIPH in January 2022 and continues to act as the central coordination point for overseas, non-operational policing deployments.

IPAS do not hold information on the International Police Assistance Brief (IPAB) platform with regards to London Policing College’s China policing projects. IPAS advise that Overseas Security and Justice assistance (OSJA) assessments are carried out where appropriate.