IOPC: In pursuit of best practice

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IOPC: In pursuit of best practice

Steve Noonan and Gary Wright, the IOPC's Roads Policing and Strategic and Technical leads, updated Police Oracle on how the organisation is developing a better understanding of training and technical issues within forces to help its investigations shape best policing practises.

Date - 29th April 2020
By - Chloe Livadeas

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The idea that most police officers don't come to work every day with the intention of doing a bad job, will be familiar to many who have ended up on the 'wrong side' of the complaints process. But this is now a theme that goes to...

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