Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a mandatory common set of standards and rules for police officers in England and Wales.

Police officers are governed by a statutory set of standards of professional behaviour, as set out in schedule 2 to the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020.

Breaches of these standards can lead to disciplinary action and they are underpinned by the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics