Written Question·Home Office·UIN 1048

Neighbourhood Policing: Powers

Tabled: 22 July 2024
Answered: 30 July 2024

Question

Matt Vickers

Conservative — Stockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that police officers have confidence in their ability to (a) appropriately use force and (b) use other powers available to them for community policing.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Police officers have the power to use force where it is reasonable, proportionate and necessary to do so.Oversight of police use of force is provided by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and any death or serious injury during or following police ...
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