Why are they still patrolling the street?

This is a question we are often asked when we see clients who have come into contact with the Police. The answer is that unless the officer does something completely extraordinary they will not end up losing their job, nor indeed are many suspended whilst an investigation goes on.

This recent article caused something of a stir.

When I wrote a website piece recently about a case where my client won compensation I was asked why the officers were not prosecuted. The answer was that the powers that be are unusually reluctant to apply the force of the law to serving police officers.

We were involved in a case very recently where two officers were dismissed from the force but then reinstated on appeal on the flimsiest of grounds imaginable. That case is now heading to the High Court for judicial review of the process. It seems that the Police are completely above the law.

The Police investigating themselves cannot possibly produce proper and fair outcomes- never has and never will. The Home Secretary Teresa May had promised reform earlier this year but when I read the news today from the Police Federation annual conference in Brighton my confidence in the police to investigate themselves was not improved.

It is time for reform and for true independence, for a robust system where people can be confident that those officers who should not be wearing the uniform will be properly dealt with.

Until that happens my colleagues and I will go on trying to make the system work for those who have the misfortune to need to complain.

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