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The IOPC, investigations and delay: time for a revolution. The first in a series of legal commentaries and updates related to policing by the 3 Raymond Buildings set of specialist barristers.

Date - 25th November 2019
By - Hugh Davies, QC

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If there is a single theme that emerges from my 28 years’ representing police officers accused of serious misconduct it is this: delay destroys lives. This is true even if, as is often the case, the misconduct hearing finds the allegations to...

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