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 JohnsonPolice 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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