Independent Office for Police Conduct: Public body review 2024

Independent review of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)

Response to the Public Body Review of the Independent Office for Police Conduct

The Home Secretary appointed Dr Gillian Fairfield (Chair of the Disclosure and Barring Service) to lead an independent review into the IOPC. You can read the terms of reference for this review.

The review considered the effectiveness of the IOPC in meeting its objectives, and makes recommendations.

The scope of the review included:

• efficacy
• efficiency
• governance
• accountability.

The review offers a background of the IOPC, outlines its purpose and sets out out the purpose of the review. It also concludes with a number of conclusions and recommendations.

Home Office have published the above response to the public body review of IOPC.