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Miscarriages of Justice: Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on the effectiveness of their complaints system for police officers who believe that a miscarriage of justice has taken place against them.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
18 Jul 2025
Target answer date
22 Jul 2025
Answer
5 Aug 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on the effectiveness of their complaints system for police officers who believe that a miscarriage of justice has taken place against them.

  2. 22 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Aug 2025

    Answer published

    There are separate routes of appeal depending on whether a police officer is appealing against the conviction of a criminal offence or the finding or outcome at disciplinary proceedings.Where an officer believes they have been wrongly convicted of a crimi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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