Police: Employment and Discipline Debate

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Department: Home Office

Police: Employment and Discipline

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb Excerpts
Monday 9th January 2023

(1 year, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
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My Lords, I respectfully disagree. I think that the appropriate process is to review this and, as I say, the review was announced in October. The terms of reference are under active discussion and will be published very soon.

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb Portrait Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GP)
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My Lords, in view of all the legislation that we keep passing here, giving the police greater and greater powers, I would have assumed that there would be some urgency to this sort of revision. We need higher standards of discipline, self-control and integrity within our police forces if we are going to give them all these extra powers.

Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
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I completely agree with the noble Baroness; we absolutely need all those things.