Question follow-through · 7793

Witnesses: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to give indirect witnesses of criminal offences that have taken place on social media standing in law to complain to the (a) Police and (b) Independent Office for P

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
10 Oct 2024
Answer
16 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 8 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to give indirect witnesses of criminal offences that have taken place on social media standing in law to complain to the (a) Police and (b) Independent Office for P

  2. 10 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    Any individual is entitled, and should be encouraged, to report anything they believe to be criminal behaviour, however they became aware of it, to the police.Section 12 of the Police Reform Act 2022 sets out that to use the police complaints system, a pe...

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