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Orang Utan said:
Why does it matter? It’s not against the rules
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Because his style of constantly reposting the same content has attracted multiple reported posts and making your posts bigger and bolder then everyone else's is plain rude. And then there's his complete lack of engagement and cut'n'paste odysseys, which are against the rules.

I've answered your question now so if you wish to pursue the matter, take it to the feedback forum.
 
Is this the best thread for IOPC stuff? I've only just been catching up with it, but sounds like there's some proper dodgy shit going on there - various links provided because I'm just trying to fit the dots together myself:

External review – IOPC Director General’s resignation | Independent Office for Police Conduct

www.policeconduct.gov.uk www.policeconduct.gov.uk
www.bbc.co.uk

IOPC investigator quit over Bianca Williams stop and search case

Trisha Napier says her investigation of the Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos case was "watered down".
www.bbc.co.uk
protect-advice.org.uk

Protect & IOPC whistleblower’s Trisha Napier Statement - Protect - Speak up stop harm

protect-advice.org.uk protect-advice.org.uk
Police watchdog sued over paedophile ring inquiry
The police watchdog has been plunged into further crisis with a lawsuit over its handling of an alleged Scotland Yard paedophile ring.
Andy Truby, a lawyer who claims constructive dismissal, is the second person in 12 months to take legal action against the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
Trisha Napier, a former IOPC investigator, is also suing after claiming that bosses watered down her findings against police who stopped and searched Bianca Williams, the athlete.

The IOPC, whose role is to hold police to account for wrongdoing, was already reeling over the resignation of Michael Lockwood, 64, its chairman, in December. He is under criminal investigation over an alleged sexual relationship with an underage child when he was in his twenties.
Truby alleges that he was effectively scapegoated over watchdog’s brief involvement in the case of an alleged paedophile gang. It took over the case for eight days before handing it back to the Metropolitan Police after admitting it did not have sufficient expertise.

Richard Watkinson, a chief inspector at the Met who was due to answer bail over sex offences, killed himself last month.
Sources said an investigation had revealed a secret room inside his house, which included a large quantity of children’s underwear and images of child abuse. Two other former Met officers will face trial over charges related to child abuse images.
Two other former Met officers will face trial over charges related to child abuse images.
On July 6, 2021, the IOPC took over the Met’s investigation into Watkinson, 49, who was responsible for schools and neighbourhood policing in west London. Three days later he was arrested by IOPC investigators as he attended a conference at the University of Cambridge. His phone was found to contain indecent images of children. On July 14, when Watkinson’s alleged co-conspirators were still at large, the IOPC handed the case back to the Met.
Truby is understood to claim that Sal Naseem, a senior IOPC official, later made a “baseless” complaint about his legal advice over the Watkinson case involving his arrest and search. Truby registered a formal grievance in September, rebutting what he believed were “spurious” allegations designed to shift blame. The IOPC brought in an external law firm to investigate.
It had reached no conclusion when Truby resigned in February last year and brought his claim, which the IOPC has refused to comment on.
Truby and Naseem had already fallen out, sources claim, over another case involving Napier, who resigned in November 2021. She alleged that Naseem had interfered in her investigation into the Met’s stop and search of Williams and the athlete’s husband Ricardo Dos Santos in July 2020.
Truby, the lawyer on the Williams case, supported Napier against Naseem’s decision to downgrade charges from gross misconduct to misconduct. Naseem ultimately changed his mind and the officers were charged with gross misconduct. The IOPC has strongly denied that decisions “were influenced by anything other than the evidence during this investigation”.
Both legal cases against the watchdog have raised questions about its stewardship under Lockwood. A file has been sent to prosecutors for consideration in his case.
A spokeswoman for the IOPC said that because of “significant developments” in the Watkinson case, “we decided it was in the public interest for the matter to be investigated by specialist officers from the force with the necessary skills required in this area”. She said that Naseem had played no part in those decisions.
Dawn Butler, the Labour MP for Brent in northwest London, said she was “deeply worried” by all these events, which “raise fundamental questions of how the IOPC operates”.
Butler has met Napier and praised her “brave and principled stance” while criticising the IOPC’s internal investigation, which found no evidence its independence had been compromised.
The MP, who is black and a critic of stop and search, said the watchdog must explain why, almost three years after Williams and Dos Santos were stopped, no disciplinary panel has been convened against the officers involved.
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Couldn't get past the paywall on this one though:

Former DPP to review Michael Lockwoods resignation from IOPC | UK Police News - Police Oracle

The IOPC has confirmed that former DPP Sir David Calvert Smith will lead the external review.
www.policeoracle.com www.policeoracle.com
 
bluescreen said:
Casey report is due on Tuesday and the Met is in the last chance saloon.
Again.

www.theguardian.com

Met police on ‘last chance’ as Casey report to condemn failure to change

Exclusive: Findings of official review due out on Tuesday described as ‘horrible’ and ‘atrocious’ for force
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Report does look to be at least asking the question about the future of the Met given it's repeated inability to change. Plus it will say a lot of what we've been saying on this thread.

But yeah, how many chances does the Met get?
 
The IOPC stuff is fairly damning too - hitmouse right to include it here.

The Lockwood stuff is interesting, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of information in the public domain about the relationship he's accused of having.
 
equationgirl said:
Caught a bit of a news programme reporting this earlier - there's still to be a hearing about whether or not she keeps her job.

ETA: I must have misheard, it's been decided she gets to keep her job, the time taken to reach a decision (6 and a half years deemed punishment enough). FFS.
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yeh and they wonder why confidence in the police is so low

if i whacked someone once i'd be out of my job and it's really hard to get sacked where i work
 
Khan says he accepts the findings, but then goes on to suggest that Rowley et al are the solution.

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It's interesting what they say about the tsg in the report, the way in which their 'parachuting in' not welcomed by local cops and that the trend is toward people encountering such pan-london teams more than bobbies on the beat. But there's a discrepancy between the make-up of a tsg police support unit - the teams they work in - and what's recorded in the report. A psu is formed of an inspector, three sergeants and 21 plod, three of whom are drivers. So 1 sgt to 7 constables. But Casey says they were told the ratio is 1 sgt to 3 pcs.
 
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