Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that lessons learned from the murder of Bijan Ebrahimi are acted upon by UK police forces.

The Government expects police forces to consider very seriously the findings and recommendations in the Safer Bristol Partnership’s December 2017 report into the murder of Bijan Ebrahimi in 2013.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission also published a report in July 2017 on Avon and Somerset Constabulary’s contact with Mr Ebrahimi prior to his murder. Where the IPCC has investigated, reported and issued learning recommendations, the police and other agencies are required to respond setting out what action they are taking or to explain why no action is being taken.

In its published response to the IPCC’s report, Avon and Somerset Constabulary set out the steps it had taken to improve the way it operates since 2013, including the design and implementation of a new operating model in 2014/15.

Evidence gathered by the IPCC informed criminal proceedings which resulted in two officers receiving prison sentences. These officers and two others were dismissed following misconduct proceedings brought by Avon and Somerset Constabulary.

Following publication of the Safer Bristol Partnership’s report, Avon and Somerset Constabulary has issued a statement fully accepting the findings of the report, and re-iterating the steps it has taken, following the IPCC’s report, to transform the way the Constabulary operates to prevent a repeat of what happened to Mr Ebrahimi.