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Independent Police Conduct Authority Act 1988

Functions of Authority

19: Subsequent powers in relation to complaint

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"What happens next with your police complaint"

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You can make a complaint to the Authority. The Authority can review how the Police handled your complaint. The Authority can also decide to investigate your complaint itself. It can tell the Police what to do when they are investigating your complaint. You might want to know what the Authority can do with your complaint. The Authority can tell the Police to look at your complaint again. It can also tell the Police to think again about what they plan to do about your complaint. The Authority can decide not to do anything else about your complaint. This might happen if the Authority thinks the Police have already done a good job of investigating your complaint, as stated in section 18. The Authority might decide that it does not need to get involved if it is happy with how the Police handled your complaint.

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19Subsequent powers in relation to complaint

  1. The Authority may at any time—

  2. review a Police investigation of a complaint:
    1. decide to investigate a complaint itself:
      1. where it oversees a Police investigation, give such directions to the Police concerning the investigation as it thinks fit:
        1. direct the Police to reopen an investigation, and thereafter oversee the investigation:
          1. direct the Police to reconsider their proposals for action on a complaint:
            1. decide, in accordance with section 18, to take no further action on the complaint:
              1. decide that no action by the Authority is required on the ground that it considers that the outcome of a Police investigation is satisfactory.