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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

And finally, I cannot resist asking the Government why they have resisted making the protocol statutory until now? It certainly does not deal with what would have happened in similar circumstances under the proposed new regime where the chief police officer would have been in charge of dealing with allegations against his senior team. This has been my last main speech in this debate. I have found it profoundly the most debilitating, distressing and appalling police Bill that has ever been my misfortune to have dealt with in the 12 years that I have been in your Lordships’ House. I regret deeply that there has been no real concern placed on looking at what my noble friend earlier called, ““the very important checks and balances””. They are not here.