Parliament Square Police Summonses

From the Countryside Alliance:

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has now summonsed three further Metropolitan Police Service officers as a result of the Parliament Square inquiry, making a total of five officers to date to receive a summons.

The IPCC is using its own investigators to inquire into complaints made against officers policing Parliament Square last September, during the final stages of the bill to ban hunting with dogs.

A total of 31 Metropolitan Police Officers have been served with notices advising them that they are subject to a disciplinary investigation, 15 of these have now been withdrawn. To date, 17 files have been submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service, five officers have received summons, four are awaiting further advice and the remainder have been returned to the IPCC marked no further action. The IPCC has submitted four files to the MPS for consideration of disciplinary action.

I wonder if any of this extra activity has been prompted by the fact that the IPCC has finally managed to get access to information previously withheld by the Guardian Media Group.

Posted by John at September 2, 2005 08:09 AM | TrackBack