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Beds stop search disparity goes down while positive outcomes go up - The top 10 stop and search officers each month meet with the ACC to talk about use of powers. • Speaking at the Delivery and Beating Crime Plan Meeting on 25 November, attended by Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye, the force’s Deputy Chief Constable presented Bedfordshire&rsqu- Officers who procured unauthorised CS cannisters cleared by IOPC - New weapons were procured to incapacitate suspects in vehicles. • Two officers who helped to procure CS gas cannisters used in an operation in which a man was killed have been cleared by an IOPC investigation after it found that Home Office guidance on procuring weapons at the time was ambiguous
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£60,471,988 in the financial year 2020-21. • This amounts to around £5,039,332 extra spent per month. More than half the money was spent on pay and overtime for officers and staff, and for re-hiring r
- Hampshire employs six PAIT scheme interpreters for deaf community - New resource will add to work of 21 PLOD officers who work across force. • Hampshire has six new Police Approved Interpreters and translators (PAIT) who are able to support deaf people who come into contact with officers. The PAIT scheme was introduced in October 2020 by the National Pol
- Force awards £350m applications management contract - Two suppliers will now run the Met's digital policing systems. • The Met has signed a £350 million contract with ICT company Atos to provide Application Management Services for its move towards digital policing. As part of the contract, which runs for up to seven years, Atos will ma
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Met beefs up professional standards with 50 more investigators
Ewing
Give all investigations to IOPC and get all officers in DPS back to investigating crime. That way no one can accuse the Met of not being transparent and independent in the complaints process. The way the IOPC work will probably mean that they either have to shape up ( unlikely ) or get submerged in all the trivial rubbish that passes for a complaint these days.
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Ewing
Give all investigations to IOPC and get all officers in DPS back to investigating crime. That way no one can accuse the Met of not being transparent and independent in the complaints process. The way the IOPC work will probably mean that they either have to shape up ( unlikely ) or get submerged in all the trivial rubbish that passes for a complaint these days.
