For any reason must be removed from policing and every effort must be made to ensure that similar people neverjoin. That is why we are providing funding to the National Police chiefs council to develop an Automated System to flag about Police Officers. We are changing the rules to make it easier for forces to remove those Who Cannot Hold the minimum level of clearance and Police Chiefs are getting back the responsibility for sharing these Conduct Hearings so that they can better uphold the standards in the forces that they lead. There will be a presumption for dismissal for any officerfound to have a presumption for dismissal for any officer found to have committed Gross Misconduct and i can announce today that there will also be an automatic suspension of Police Officers charged with certain criminal offences. But the work must continue. Part two of the report is considering systemic issues in policing such as vetting, recruitment and the culture, as well as the safety of women in pub
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national police chiefs council, so far as this is concerned. so it is a positive that this baseline has been brought out from the police. the other thing is that quite recently it has been announced that violence against women and girls will be part of the strategic policing requirement, which ups its profile as an item in the police, it gives it a little bit more central control, a bit more status, so the job of investigating violence against women and girls possibly releases some more funding for it. so, these are good steps in the right direction that haven tjust come from this leadership figure, but from the police more widely. but it s very hard to say. my reading of the papers is that there were three orfour the papers is that there were three or four forces that didn t even bother to send the data through, or they were unable to send the data through, orthey they were unable to send the data through, or they have so much they do not wish to disclose that they chose not to send
prosecutions are going down, confidence is falling. there is a legacy of damaging cuts, and also these individual toxic cases around the culture. there needs to be a proper serious programme of reform for policing. i strongly believe in the british policing model, policing by consent. i think that s something we should be proud of, but that means we also have to defend it, stand up for it and also deliver reforms that will achieve it. at the moment, there s been none of those reforms from the home secretary. the home secretary has been silent on policing for a year. we have not seen any of the kinds of reforms to policing that we need, and labour had set out a plan that we do that, including reforms to trading, including reforms to vetting, including reforms to misconduct, and including, at their heart, making sure that violence against women and girls is part of the strategic policing requirement given to police forces across the country by the home office so that you challenge any in
that is why i think this has to be properly investigated. we have some misconduct - investigations into some officers around the allegations that were not previously pmperly investigated in this case. but we need something that is much broader to address this, because otherwise confidence will be undermined. - we have to turn this around. what the home office should do - is make violence against women part of strategic policing requirement for police forces. that means saying it is a top i priority and must be dealt with, alongside terrorism . and the top priorities. send a signal from the top that this matters and set up a review to getl to the heart of what the issues are within police forces. - so they can be properly dealtl with and the majority of police officers who want to be able to deal