Police chiefs granted powers to remove officers unfit for duty

Police chiefs may automatically fire officers who fail the background verifications, under new government measures to increase vigilance.

Ask for a change to police investigation procedures, after an independent report on the murder of Sarah Eeverard by police officer Wayne Cozens in 2021.

The new measures, which make the approved background verifications a legal requirement for all service officers, will be established in Parliament on Wednesday and will enter into force next month.

The Secretary of the Interior, Yvette Cooper, has described the “essential” reforms in the government program to “restore confidence in surveillance.”

Currently, in some circumstances, those who do not pass research checks can remain in their strength in the full salary, despite not being able to assume a role of public oriented.

With the police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said it is “absurd” and a “ridiculous waste of taxpayers” to pay police officers who cannot be fired to sit at home.

With the confirmed earlier this year, 29 officers and personnel were in a special sale of license upon receiving full salary and pensions.

In February, the Superior Court ruled that Sergeant Lino Di Maria, an officer accused of rape, could not be dismissed because the process was fundamental unfair.

He had set up a legal challenge after his investigation, a background verification, eliminated after accusations of sexual assault, who hears and were not accused.

Mrs. Justice Long said that the dismissal process that had been used by the illegal era, since those that arose from irregularities were denied the opportunity to defend themselves.

She gets used to saying that MET’s powers “extended to the dismissal of a police officer due to the withdrawal of authorization approval.”

Sir Mark said the sentence left surveillance in a “hopeless position” and meant that the police force did not have the ability to eliminate the officers considered not suitable for duty through a investigation process.

The Court ruling followed an independent report on the murder of Sarah Eeverard by police officer Wayne Couzens in March 2021, who requested that the police investigation procedures be reexamined.

The subsequent background verifications of all police officers and staff in 2024 found more than 400 links for previously unleashed misconduct, which include robbery, fraud and drugs.

The current model with the police review for new and present officers includes background verifications in criminal records, behavioral evaluations, finance and close associates of the individual.

The Secretary of the Interior, Yvette Cooper said: “It is simply not acceptable that officers who are not clear to serve represent a risk for their colleagues are not eliminated.

“These new rules are essential and that is why this government has been working closely with strength to overcome thesis barriers to restore confidence in surveillance.”

She said that only “officers of the highest standards” could use the uniform.

“In recent years, severe cases that have seriously failed all clean surveillance standards have damaged public confidence in officers who are supposed to protect them, and undercut the majority of brave and committed officers who work tirelessly to keep us safe.”

The leader of the Chief Council of the National Police for Investigation, Police Chief Alex Franklin-Smith

Speaking in the House of Commons in November last year, Cooper established the government’s plans for new police reforms, including strengthening the requirements of the requirements to the suspension of officers under investigation by violence against and girls, and the crimes of pastures and the southern criminals that were dismissed.

In response to the announcement, Sir Mark Rowley said that “it was never correct that an officer could lose his research, but not lose his job.”

“These reforms close that dazzling gap in the law and will allow us to move quickly to eliminate those who do not take place in surveillance.

“This is important not only for the public we serve, but also for most workers who should be able to feel safe, have full confidence in those with whom they work and have the public’s confidence.”