Written Question·Home Office·UIN 52939
Complaints: Crime
Tabled: 16 May 2025
Answered: 23 May 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing criminal penalties for individuals who knowingly make (a) false and (b) malicious complaints for (i) political and (ii) reputation
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe Home Office is unable to comment on or intervene in individual police investigations, so as not to undermine Policing’s operational independence. Where a police force investigates an individual, we expect the force to determine how best to support tho...
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