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MPs today demand a shake-up at the police watchdog following a string of scandals which have undermined public confidence in how complaints against officers will be handled.
The Commons home affairs committee says ‘lengthy inquiries, poor communications and opaque processes are still having a detrimental impact on complainants and officers alike’.
This means the ‘public perception remains that complaints against police are unlikely to succeed and would only result in minimal sanctions’.
MPs also blast watchdog officials for making the widow of ex-home secretary Leon Brittan – falsely accused of being a member of a Westminster murder and child sex ring – feel like a suspect when she complained about potential misconduct in Scotland Yard’s disastrous VIP child sex abuse inquiry, Operation Midland.
The home affairs committee says those responsible for making
