The public rightly expects the highest standards of behaviour from police officers and the vast majority meet this expectation.
But recently too many high-profile incidents and reports, especially in London, have damaged trust.
This cannot continue.
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It’s unfair on the public and lets down other serving officers.
Culture and standards in the police must improve.
And where an officer has fallen seriously short of these expectations, demonstrable, public action must be taken.
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It’s absolutely vital that the police act to restore trust, return to #commonsensepolicing and treat the public and victims with the respect they deserve.
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I welcome @MetPoliceUK’s commitment to tackling the issues raised in the Baroness Casey report and hope this review will also help to address underlying concerns.
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Thank you @Telegraph for correcting the record. No, I haven’t banned government lawyers from doing anything. Instead, I instigated the first major review of the quality of government legal advice. The conclusions were overwhelming: 1/5
government lawyers are too cautious in their advice and this has hampered ministerial policy objectives needlessly. Whilst the government wins the majority of its cases in court, there is a clear trend of lawyers advising negatively, only to be proven wrong in court. 2/5
Moving away from the ‘computer says no’ approach, I put in place new Legal Risk Guidance for government lawyers on how to support ministers better, adopt a solutions-based approach and use innovative legal thinking.3/5