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House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Leadership and standards in the police: follow–up Tenth Report of Session 2013–14 Volume II Oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 23 and 30 October, and 5 November 2013 HC 756-II [Accompanied by HC 799-i] Published on 9 December 2013 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £18.50 Home Affairs Committee The Home Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies. Current membership Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP (Labour, Leicester East) (Chair) Ian Austin MP (Labour, Dudley North) Nicola Blackwood MP (Conservative, Oxford West and Abingdon) James Clappison MP (Conservative, Hertsmere) Michael Ellis MP (Conservative, Northampton North) Paul Flynn MP (Labour, Newport West) Lorraine Fullbrook MP (Conservative, South Ribble) Dr Julian Huppert MP (Liberal Democrat, Cambridge) Yasmin Qureshi MP (Labour, Bolton South East) Mark Reckless MP (Conservative, Rochester and Strood) Mr David Winnick MP (Labour, Walsall North) The following Members were also members of the Committee during the Parliament. Rt Hon Alun Michael (Labour & Co-operative, Cardiff South and Penarth) Karl Turner MP (Labour, Kingston upon Hull East) Steve McCabe MP (Labour, Birmingham Selly Oak) Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour, Houghton and Sunderland South) Chris Ruane MP (Labour, Vale of Clwyd) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/homeaffairscom. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Tom Healey (Clerk), Robert Cope (Second Clerk), Eleanor Scarnell (Committee Specialist), Andy Boyd (Senior Committee Assistant), Iwona Hankin (Committee Support Officer) and Alex Paterson (Select Committee Media Officer). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 3276; the Committee’s email address is [email protected]. Leadership and standards in the police: follow–up 1 Contents Page Witnesses 2 List of printed written evidence 3 2 Leadership and standards in the police: follow–up Witnesses Wednesday 23 October 2013 (HC 756-i) Page Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, Professional Standards, Warwickshire and West Mercia Police Ev 1 Dame Anne Owers DBE, Chair, and Deborah Glass, Deputy Chair, Independent Police Complaints Commission Ev 10 DS Stuart Hinton, Warwickshire Police Federation, Sgt Chris Jones, West Midlands Police Federation, and Inspector Ken MacKaill, West Mercia Police Federation Ev 17 Chief Constable David Shaw, West Mercia Police Ev 28 Chief Constable Andy Parker, Warwickshire Police, Chief Constable David Shaw, West Mercia Police, and Chief Constable Chris Sims QPM, West Midlands Police Ev 37 Tuesday 29 October 2013 (HC 756-ii) Professor Shirley Pearce CBE, Chair, and Alex Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, College of Policing Ev 46 Tuesday 5 November 2013 (HC 799-i) DS Stuart Hinton, Warwickshire Police Federation, and Sgt Chris Jones, West Midlands Police Federation Ev 56 Dame Anne Owers DBE, Chair, and Rachel Cerfontyne, Deputy Chair, Independent Police Complaints Commission Ev 60 Leadership and standards in the police: follow–up 3 List of printed written evidence 1 Deborah Glass, Deputy Chair, IPCC, 21 Oct 2013 Ev 66 2 Andy Parker, Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, 22 Oct 2013 Ev 66 3 David Shaw, Chief Constable of West Mercia Police, 22 Oct 2013 Ev 72 4 Chris Sims, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, 22 Oct 2013 Ev 112 5 Paul McKeever, Chairman, Police Federation, 26 Sept 2012 Ev 121 6 Ian Edwards, Ken MacKaill and Simon Payne, 27 Sept 2012 Ev 122 7 David Shaw, Chief Constable of West Mercia Police, 25 Oct 2013 Ev 122 8 Chris Sims, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, 25 Oct 2013 Ev 128 9 Andy Parker, Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, 28 Oct 2013 Ev 128 10 Dame Anne Owers DBE, Chair, IPCC, 29 Oct 2013 Ev 133 11 Deborah Glass, Deputy Chair, IPCC, 29 Oct 2013 Ev 148 12 Andy Parker, Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, 29 Oct 2013 Ev 148 13 Neil Brunton, Deputy Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, 29 Oct 2013 Ev 149 14 DS Stuart Hinton, 29 Oct 2013 Ev 158 15 Jon Gaunt, 29 Oct 2013 Ev 160 16 Chris Sims, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, 30 Oct 2013 Ev 161 17 Deborah Glass, Deputy Chair, IPCC, 31 Oct 2013 Ev 167 18 Chris Sims, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, 2 Nov 2013 Ev 167 19 Andy Parker, Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, 4 Nov 2013 Ev 168 20 David Shaw, Chief Constable of West Mercia Police, 4 Nov 2013 Ev 171 21 Sgt Chris Jones, 5 Nov 2013 Ev 171 cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [SO] Processed: [04-12-2013 12:43] Job: 034707 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/034707/034707_o001_odeth_HC 756-i Leadership CORRECTED TRANSCRIPT.xml Home Affairs Committee: Evidence Ev 1 Oral evidence Taken before the Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday 23 October 2013 Members present: Keith Vaz (Chair) Nicola Blackwood Steve McCabe Mr James Clappison Mark Reckless Michael Ellis Chris Ruane Lorraine Fullbrook Mr David Winnick Dr Julian Huppert ________________ Examination of Witness Witness: Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, Professional Standards, Warwickshire and West Mercia Police, gave evidence. Q1 Chair: Before I begin the session, could I thank me supervising it and checking it, and it was Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams for coming to give obviously submitted when I had seen it and evidence to the Select Committee today. We are most approved it. grateful. This is a continuation of the Select Committee’s Q5 Chair: Were you the senior officer involved? inquiry into leadership and standards in the police, and Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams: Yes. in particular the response by the IPCC to the report by the West Mercia, Warwickshire and West Midlands Q6 Chair: Did you end the draft report with the Police. First of all, Chief Inspector, I wrote to you words, “By giving a misleading account of what took earlier this week and I asked you to supply some place at the meeting I believe the officers have a case documentation to this Committee consisting of your to answer for misconduct and bringing discredit on draft report, which I will call “draft report A” and the police service”? your second report “final report B” and you were Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams: Yes, I did. unable to supply it. Was there a reason that you personally were unable to supply this? Q7 Chair: Do you still consider that the three Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams: I understood that officers concerned—and we will hear from them the force was going to do that on my behalf. later—have a case to answer in respect of misconduct and discredit being brought on the police service? Q2 Chair: We received a letter from a Penny Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams: Absolutely, yes, I Fishwick who said that she advised the Chief do. Constable to instruct you not to submit any documentation in response to your request at the Q8 Chair: Could you tell the Committee why? present time. Did you have any contact with this Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams: Chair, I find solicitor? myself in some difficulty here. I am very clear that I Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams: With Penny did find a case to answer of misconduct. That is still Fishwick? Yes, I have had contact with her. As I say, my view. My difficulty is that I understand that my I understand that the force were going to provide Chief Constable has written to you and said that there those documents. may still be proceedings. Therefore, I find myself in a difficult position when it comes to going into details, Q3 Chair: Which is why you did not? as to explaining exactly why. I am very clear on what Chief Inspector Reakes-Williams: I did not do it on the position is, but I am not sure that I should be going that basis.