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Our new edition of #LearningtheLessons is out📝

It covers:
🗂️Case studies on #UseOfForce
🚩Themes such as restraint, incapacitant spray, Taser, firearms, and more.
💡Opportunities to improve the #policing response to similar incidents

Read Issue 47:
▶️https://t.co/Ry3X2gDLcu

[Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct]

Gross misconduct proven against ex-Pc

A hearing ruled that a former @nottspolice officer committed gross misconduct when he caused the death of Trevor Bartlett who was struck by the police van he was driving. Follow the link below for more.

▶️: https://t.co/247CrwTxgq

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We are investigating the contact @ASPolice had with two individuals before their deaths in an explosion in #Bristol
▶️https://t.co/mvYePdS7Zk

[Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct]

A @gmpolice detention officer who sent inappropriate images and messages to a woman he met while on duty has been dismissed with immediate effect.

The woman had attended #custody to act as an appropriate adult for a child.

▶️Read more: https://t.co/BfS6aOV98m

[Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct]

Investigation into police shooting at Bury

We have begun an investigation into a firearms operation during which a man was shot and injured by @gmpolice officers attempting to stop a car. For more on this story follow the link below.

▶️: https://t.co/bTq6zG0lj4

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A @cheshirepolice officer is due to appear in court tomorrow charged with assaulting a man in custody.

It follows our investigation into the use of force during the man's time in custody.

▶️Read more: https://t.co/sHcjhoJCF6

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A former @WestYorksPolice officer will appear in court this week following an #investigation directed by our Anti-Corruption Unit

Read more:
▶️https://t.co/UB41gH9zM4

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A @NorfolkPolice officer has been given a final written warning at a disciplinary hearing over their conduct during the #arrest of a teenager in Kings Lynn.

Read more about our investigation:
▶️https://t.co/R5bE3Jea93

[Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct]

An investigation into the fatal #policeshooting of David Joyce at Milton Keynes railway statement last April has found that the use of lethal force by @ThamesVP was necessary and reasonable in the circumstances.

Read our findings:
▶️https://t.co/Lg6I5hT1ju

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Together with the @CollegeofPolice and @policeconduct, we are investigating the @centreWJ's super-complaint on the length of police investigations into sexual offences.

This week we published the Terms of Reference.

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The man who died following a fatal police #shooting in #Bedford this month has been identified as Angelo Russo, aged 41.

Read the latest update here about our independent investigation into the incident involving @bedspolice:
▶️https://t.co/c2GNoOncQZ

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Want to learn about our #Welsh services?

Earlier this week we were at @EisteddfodUrdd, at the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner's stand in order to raise awareness about our services and use the Welsh language with us.

▶️ https://t.co/TRMTOM5Viy

#urdd2026

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Eisiau dysgu am ein gwasanaethau #Cymraeg?

Gynharach yr wythnos hon buom yn @EisteddfodUrdd, yn stondin Comisiynydd Heddlu a Throsedd Gogledd Cymru er mwyn codi ymwybyddiaeth am ein gwasanaethau a defnyddio'r Gymraeg gyda ni.

▶️ https://t.co/TRMTOM5Viy

#urdd2026

[Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct]

We're looking forward to attending the Urdd Eisteddfod #urdd2026

Our staff will be there all weekend – please come for a chat at the UK Government Welsh Services stand to learn how you can use the Welsh language with us.

▶ https://t.co/3rnVkhLPpO

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Dyn ni’n edych ymlaen at @Eisteddfodurdd Cymru 2026  #urdd2026

Bydd aelodau ein staff yno drwy’r penwythnos a’r gŵyl banc

– dewch am sgwrs yn stondin Gwasanaethau Cymraeg Llywodraeth y DU i glywed sut y gallwch ddefnyddio Cymraeg gyda ni.

▶ https://t.co/kc0ku1lmWS

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A @wiltshirepolice officer has admitted assaulting a boy in a police station car park.

He repeatedly swore at the 13-year-old, pushed him aggressively six times, and dragged him towards the car park exit.

It follows an IOPC investigation.

Full story ▶️
https://t.co/u7Jak33vqW

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We received a record number of referrals last year and took on a third more independent investigations compared to the previous 12 months.

Full story ▶️
https://t.co/7wQGLSm2Bo

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Proceedings to follow Warwickshire death reinvestigation

Five @warkspolice officers face disciplinary proceedings over their actions at a bail hostel when Darren Cumberbatch was restrained. He died in hospital nine days later.

▶️: https://t.co/Pytx9fsa7o

[Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct]

A former investigator with @Cumbriapolice has been jailed for unlawfully accessing and sharing sensitive information. It follows an #investigation directed by our Anti-Corruption Unit

▶️Read more: https://t.co/f1fZrxgxLz

[Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) @policeconduct]

We're investigating the fatal @bedspolice shooting of a man in Bedford yesterday.

Our investigators have been at the scene gathering evidence and have established some of the circumstances leading up to the #shooting.

Read more:
https://t.co/vMpfS0ame8