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A police force is facing questions over its treatment of disabled people, after two reports by the independent watchdog into the way its officers dealt with young autistic men. In both reports, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation was impeded […]
A police force has launched an internal review of its treatment of disabled people, after it was forced to refer two separate incidents involving young autistic men to the police watchdog. One case referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) […]
The family of an autistic man say they believe disabled people are still not safe from their local police force, after two officers were finally sacked for gross misconduct for “shocking” behaviour during an incident in 2014. Despite the sackings, Bedfordshire […]
The conviction of two police employees for misconduct in the lead-up to the murder of a disabled man who had begged officers for protection from his killer proves the need to take disability hate crime more seriously, say campaigners. Avon and […]
Human rights campaigners have criticised plans for an inquiry that will examine lessons from the deaths of people in mental distress in police custody, because they say the government already knows what action it needs to take. The call came from […]