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The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is a non-departmental public body in England and Wales, responsible for overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales. [1] It replaced the Independent Police Complaints Commission in 2018.
Between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2009 the IPCC used its powers to begin 353 independent and 759 managed investigations into the most serious complaints against the police. These included deaths in police custody, shootings and fatal traffic incidents.
It comes after a video circulated of a police officer allegedly kicking and stamping on a man at the airport.
The IPCC was also, in Northern Ireland, the successor body to Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, set up in 2000 to investigate complaints against the Royal Ulster Constabulary and its successor the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). It had its own teams of civilian investigators and was completely independent of the ...
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W80 and the Met sought a judicial review of the IOPC's direction on the grounds that the IOPC had applied the law incorrectly. They argued that W80 was justified in his use of force as long as his belief that his life was in danger (from Baker reaching for a weapon) was honestly held; the IOPC argued that the belief must be both honest and ...
In legal terminology, a complaint is any formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party or parties (the plaintiff(s)) believes are sufficient to support a claim against the party or parties against whom the claim is brought (the defendant(s)) that entitles the plaintiff(s) to a remedy (either money damages or injunctive relief).
The Police Complaints Board was founded in 1977 to oversee the handling of complaints. This was succeeded by the Police Complaints Authority and the Independent Police Complaints Commission . The current police misconduct authority is the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which was created in 2018.