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This page contains press release 36/02, which discusses a response from Chair of the MPA to the National Black Police Association statement concerning its complaint to the Authority.
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Response from Chair of the MPA to the National Black Police Association statement concerning its complaint to the Authority
36/02
10 April 2002
The National Black Police Association press release issued today concerning a complaint it had previously made to the Metropolitan Police Authority contains a number of factual inaccuracies.
The Metropolitan Police Authority has not agreed to settle out of court. Following negotiations between lawyers for both parties the NBPA agreed to withdraw its application for permission to judicially review the Authority's decision not to appoint an investigating officer to investigate allegations made by the NBPA against two senior officers in the Metropolitan Police Service.
Acting as a responsible public body and taking into account the legal arguments put forward in the application and further information that came to light as part of the process, the Authority has agreed to look again at these allegations.
This does not imply that its initial decision was ill conceived, nor that a full investigation will automatically follow. The allegations will however be considered afresh by the Authority's Professional Standards and Performance Monitoring Committee. This does not amount to a U turn.
The Authority at no point declined to record the allegation, as was acknowledged by the NBPA in their application for judicial review.
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