Member

We recognise those impacts, which is why we introduced reforms last year, including a presumption of fast-track hearings for former officers and a broader power for police forces to utilise fast-track hearings. In addition—and I hope this helps the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe—we have committed to establish a wider review to address barriers to timeliness in police misconduct cases as part of the police accountability review we are currently undertaking. I agree completely that timeliness must improve, but I argue that this amendment could potentially add bureaucracy, cost and delay to the system, not remove it.