COMPLAINT BY CLARE SHORT MP UPHELD BY POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY
01 January 1991
COMPLAINT BY CLARE SHORT MP UPHELD BY POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY
bacdoc September=1991
The Police Complaints Authority have concluded its supervision
of a complaint by Ms Clare Short MP that an officer (or officers)
of the West Midlands Police misused information obtained during
a criminal investigation by passing it to the press in a manner
likely to embarrass her.
The investigation concludes that Ms Short's complaint is
justified and substantiated.
The investigation found that:
There is no evidence that in leaking the information the
criminal law has been breached in this matter.
Confidential information was supplied to the press by one
or more West Midlands Police officers. There is no evidence
which points to any individual officer, or former officer,
or any indication as to when the information was supplied
to the press.
The need for access to papers on an unsolved crime
guaranteed any number of officers could have copied any
document in the system and replaced it without detection.
Police Complaints Authority press release: 7 August 1991