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UK: "Independent" complaints body delayed for a year:

01 August 2002

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The new Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) that will succeed the widely discredited Police Complaints Authority (PCA), has had its launch delayed by the government. The IPCC was scheduled to take over from the PCA next year, but this has been put back until April 2004, to allow the body more time to recruit staff. The Superintendents' Association and the Association of Police Authorities, who are on the steering group overseeing the setting up of the IPCC, have both expressed "disappointment" at the delay. David Palmer, secretary of the Superintendents' Association, said that the delay will allow the service to have more input into the creation of the new commission. The United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) have already rejected the claim that the PCA is "reformable" rather than "discredited". Seeing the new body as falling far short of the "sweeping reforms needed" the UFFC have called for a genuinely independent body. Police Review 6.9.02.

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