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There is also Section 45 of the Act, which prohibits the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the police from investigating alleged offences involving, for example, inexplicable failures to investigate a murder, unexplained loss of critical forensic evidence, failure to comply with investigative procedures, and many similar matters which have been identified during the course of investigations about police conduct, and which were previously investigated under the police Act. No further prosecutions can be initiated for such offences. These provisions apply to matters such as misconduct in public office, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and other crimes which allegedly occurred in the context of Troubles-related offences. Section 45 is not covered by the proposed remedial order and the Government have not appealed this finding.