Complaints against the police on the rise in Britain...

Complaints against the police rose 8% last year, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said today. The police watchdog said there were 31,259 complaints against forces in England and Wales in 2008-09, a year-on-year rise of 2,296, meaning there are more than 600 complaints made each week.

One in every four complaints was for neglect of duty – officers being slow or ineffective when responding to calls, the IPCC said, and one in five was for rudeness. Around one complaint in 10 is upheld, the IPCC said. The figures exclude complaints against the police over the G20 protests. The data is likely to worry both the Home Office and senior officers, after efforts to make officers more accountable. More...

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