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The Boston Police Department said today it will provide an around-the-clock protective detail to guard the home of indicted Officer Nelson Carrasquillo after it was targeted by suspected arsonists for the third time yesterday.
Acting Police Commissioner Albert Goslin said an officer will stay outside Carrasquillo's Dorchester home, will be dispatched to answer other calls, but will return after finishing that assignment.
"This is the third event at this location," Goslin said. "While the investigation is going on, I have a duty to protect not only the individual property... Read more
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UK: IPCC watchdog under attack
The police complaints watchdog should stop employing retired officers to investigate the public’s concerns about their former forces.
A committee of MPs said it was shocked that the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) routinely employed former police officers as investigators.
“Public confidence in the impartiality of the IPCC is bound to be damaged by these practices,” said the report. “We are shocked that this situation has been allowed to develop and recommend that steps are taken to prevent this occurring and to remove any hint of impropriety.”
The criticism will sting the IPCC whose current head of investigations was himself the subject of criticism in its reports into the Stockwell shooting.
Moir Stewart, a former Scotland Yard commander, was said by the IPCC to have made an error of judgment in 2005 when he failed to pass crucial information about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes to Sir Ian Blair, the then Met Commissioner. Mr Stewart was appointed to the post of director of investigations at the IPCC last year.
The MPs’ report is wide-ranging and scathing in its criticism of the IPCC. It says that the public’s allegations of police misconduct are poorly investigated by an overworked watchdog which fails to inspire public confidence.
The report says the IPCC takes too long to investigate complaints and lacks empathy for both stressed police officers and the victims of serious police failings.
It states: “The commission must remember that it is handling stressful, controversial cases, and to do so in a distant and non-empathetic manner only harms the reputation of the wider complaints system and does not satisfy anyone involved that justice has been done.”
Concern is expressed that only one in ten serious complaints against the police is upheld by the IPCC and that in 99 out of every 100 cases the complaints system involved “the police investigating the police”.
The MPs also echoed concerns from a former IPCC commissioner who said that senior officials remained in post too long and became too close to the police forces they were supposed to be scrutinising.
The IPCC, which was set up in 2004 and has a £35 million budget, has recorded high-profile successes, such as the Stockwell inquiry and the recent conviction of Commander Ali Dizaei for corruption offences.
But the MPs said that overall it produced “a poor service” and was in need of major reform.
The IPCC has recently issued new guidance to police forces on how to deal with low-level complaints more quickly and with a strong emphasis on apologising to members of the public when mistakes have been made.
Nick Hardwick, chairman of the IPCC said he was “surprised” by the report which seemed to contradict the findings of another parliamentary committee last year.
He said: “We recognise there are areas where the performance of the police complaints system could improve but we do not believe the report presents a balanced picture of the IPCC.”
Mr Hardwick said the report had relied too heavily on the evidence of one former IPCC commissioner.
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