Author: AAAPPP
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Changes Made on IOPC Police Complaints Regulations (February 2020)
What Is the IOPC? If you’re familiar with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), then it is almost the same as the Independent Office For Police Conduct (IOPC). This name change has been placed since January 2018. This office still fulfills the same duties as its predecessor agency. To refresh your knowledge about IOPC, this…
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Public Trust in the Police’s Use of Force: Trustworthy or Dubious?
The government makes all the rules, executes them, and prosecutes whoever disobeys the law. The police are expected to enforce the laws of the land. And when all diplomatic ways of curbing crime fail, they use force to alleviate the problems of crime somehow. In this article, we will see how the UK police use…
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How to Report Allegations of Discrimination?
Discrimination is a broad topic that has weathered the test of time. This misbehavior still exists after the efforts of all humanity to eliminate such acts. Every person may experience such action at some point in their life, especially the marginalized and the minority. But what if you experienced discrimination from the police? Where do…
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Responsibilities and Accountability of Off-Duty Police Officers
Police represent the civil authority of a government. Unlike ordinary citizens, they carry a great deal of risk since they are responsible for protecting lives and property by enforcing the law, ensuring public order and safety, and detecting, investigating, and preventing criminal acts. Given their enormous responsibility, police, unfortunately, do not have the luxury of…
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IOPC’s Head Michael Lockwood has become Subject of Police Investigation
The head of the police watchdog has been forced to resign after becoming the subject of a police investigation, Home Secretary Suella Braverman says. Independent Office for Police Conduct director general Michael Lockwood said on Friday that he was resigning for “personal and domestic reasons”. But on Saturday the home secretary said she had taken…
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Arrest of Liverpool’s Mayor Joe Anderson Was Initiated By Police Officer Who Himself Was Under Investigation For Serious Corruption
Summary of review of Operation Aloft Operation Aloft was started by Merseyside Police in 2019 and led to the first-ever publicly made arrest of an acting mayor of a major city on 4 December 2020. The decision to make this arrest in a publicly demonstrated way was a conscious step of Merseyside Police as they…
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98% Of Respondents Condemn Way of Handling Investigation That Led To Arrest Of Liverpool’s Mayor Joe Anderson
On 27 March 2023 AAAPPP published its report on Operation Aloft, an investigation performed by the Merseyside Police with what AAAPPP believes to be the grave failures of the public interest. In August 2023, ignoring the findings of AAAPPP’s report, the Merseyside Police submitted an investigation report on Operation Aloft to the CPS. AAAPPP has…
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Police Watchdog’s All-Time Head Michael Lockwood is Charged for a Criminal Offence
Michael Lockwood, the director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) from its inception in January 2018 is facing ongoing legal proceedings of six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape against a girl of 14 years of age committed between October 1985 and March 1986. The allegations were filed in…
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AAAPPP’s Call for a Public Inquiry on Failed Integrity of Operation Aloft
AAAPPP publishes its official invitation to the Home Office for initiation of a public inquiry into the circumstances of Operation Aloft which has led to the involvement of the government in running Liverpool City Council and triggered the biggest political crisis in North-West in the last decades. The 20-page PDF-version of the call by AAAPPP…