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The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) was an independent body in the United Kingdom with the power to investigate public complaints against the Police in England and Wales as well as related matters of public concern.
The statutory powers and responsibilities of the commission were set out by the Police Reform Act 2002, and it came into existence on 1 April 2004, replacing the Police Complaints Authority. It was a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), funded by the Home Office, but by law entirely independent of the police, interest groups and political ...
Independent Office for Police Conduct (2018 – present) Independent Police Complaints Commission (2004–2018) Police Complaints Authority (United Kingdom) (1985–2004) Police Complaints Board (1977–1985)
In April 2017, the IPCC took over responsibility of oversight of complaints in relation to the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority and from 2018, the new Independent Office for Police Conduct, in certain circumstances, takes responsibility for oversight of complaints in relation to fire and rescue service personnel. [1]
The Police Complaints Board (PCB) was the British government organisation tasked with overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales from 1 June 1977 until it was replaced by the Police Complaints Authority on 29 April 1985.
An amendment to how police complaints are handled in Guernsey has not led to any being dismissed, the Committee for Home Affairs (CHA) says. The CHA said since a change to allow complaints to be ...
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (England and Wales) investigates complaints against police officers and staff of the police forces in England and Wales, [14] and staff of HM Revenue and Customs, the National Crime Agency in England and Wales, the Border Force and officers from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority. [15]
Of 10,500 complaints filed by black people between 2011 and 2015, just 166 — or 1.6 percent — were sustained or led to discipline after an internal investigation. Overall, the authority sustained just 2.6 percent of all 29,000 complaints.