Civil Claims (1167A/22)
Request
Are settlements or pay outs for such civil claims handled by your legal department, rather than by your professional standards department?
Does your force monitor and keep a record on each officer’s file of every time the force settles or pays out in a civil case wholly or partly arising from that officer’s alleged misconduct? If so, which department monitors this?
If the answer to the first question is no, why not?
Response
Please find below our response.
Are settlements or pay outs for such civil claims handled by your legal department, rather than by your professional standards department? – Joint Legal Services handle these claims.
Does your force monitor and keep a record on each officer’s file of every time the force settles or pays out in a civil case wholly or partly arising from that officer’s alleged misconduct? If so, which department monitors this? – Our Professional Standards Department have no involvement in these matters and do not store any information about civil matters on their systems. Any information held by our Legal Services Department would have to be manually reviewed in order to obtain this information.
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