A review has warned that the former home secretary Suella Braverman risked influencing policing decisions when she accused senior officers of bias over pro-Gaza marches.
The Inspectorate of Constabulary has said she may have impinged on the operational independence of the Metropolitan Police when she called for a pro-Palestinian demonstration to be banned on Armistice Day last year.Ms Braverman accused senior police officers of “playing favourites” with certain protest groups, in an article in The Times.
She described it as a “dangerous attempt to undermine respect for the police” adding that it was “deliberately creating division”. The investigation by the inspectorate into impartiality and activism within policing also heard from a number of officers who said they “had never known a time when senior politicians were so openly politicising” the police.Chief inspector Andy Cooke said: “The operational independence of chief constables is a cornerstone of policing in the UK.
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