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HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickIt is important that we ensure that whatever disciplinary process is in place actually works. It is clear that there are serious questions about the efficacy of the process, the…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThe Government legislated in February 2020 to strengthen police complaints and disciplinary systems to make them more transparent, more proportionate and more accountable. New…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickAll cases are abhorrent where confidence in policing is shattered and the reputation of the force is undermined. That is why we want to ensure that chief constables take the…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickWe need to ensure the right system is in place to properly identify inappropriate candidates. What we have seen thus far is that there are inappropriate processes and people who…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I must say that the vast majority of police officers uphold the highest standards of behaviour and professionalism, but there are pockets of…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickMay I clarify one point that I referred to earlier about some of the findings of Baroness Casey? I want to be clear that she found that allegations relating to sexual misconduct…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThat is exactly why, for the Met, the Met Commissioner has instituted a review of historic cases in respect of which there may be a flag for a domestic incident, and the Met is…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThe action that needs to be taken has been set out incredibly widely and comprehensively in several reports. That action includes increasing the minimum standards for…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend. As Baroness Casey identified in her interim review at the end of last year, the misconduct process takes too long. Officers and staff…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickIt is important to note that David Carrick’s initial vetting to join the Metropolitan police took place in 2001, prior to the introduction of national standards on vetting, and…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThe Carrick case will be looked at by Lady Angiolini, and hopefully the issues to which the hon. Lady referred will be fleshed out. I am interested in her point about the transfer…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickWe have a designated Minister for Safeguarding, my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Miss Dines), who is sitting alongside me. In the Home Office we definitely…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There is now a large amount of work for not only the Met but the wider policing family to do to restore and rebuild trust and confidence…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI want to do what works, which is why I have taken very seriously what the Met commissioner has said about the process relating to police misconduct hearings and disciplinary…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickMy hon. Friend raises a good point about police culture, which is why we need to ensure that we have a good analysis of exactly what that means. We have some important findings…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickIt is important that we look closely at exactly what is happening in the police misconduct process. Concerns have been raised—not only by Baroness Casey, but by Sir Mark…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickMy hon. Friend raises a very good point about the disciplinary process. Indeed, Sir Mark Rowley himself has spoken at length—not just at the Select Committee, but more…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThe hon. Lady asks a series of good questions. To give more detail about the Met Commissioner’s commitments to strengthen the procedures, there is already a strengthening of the…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI reiterate my thanks and tribute to my right hon. Friend for her leadership when she was in this role. She led from the front in the fight to protect women and girls and to…17 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickIt is disappointing that the shadow Home Secretary has resorted to cheap political lines; I do not think that today is a day for political attacks. There is a human tragedy at the…17 Jan 2023