to stop him. the second part will examine policing, looking at vetting, how police investigate themselves and their behaviour, but the inquiry won t have the power to demand witnesses and evidence. but ministers promise that will change if needed. it s not statutory, it s notjudge led, both of which we think it needs to be. and it can tjust be about wayne couzens, it s got to be about the entire aspect of the case and also about women s treatment by the met. hello, good morning. 0nly yesterday, the met police commissioner announced a review into her own force by an independent person working alongside her. there s also the police regulator investigation into whether the met and kent police properly looked into three indecent exposure allegations against couzens. the home office can t say if any of the inquiry will be held in public. but the conclusions will be published. and just last month, the police inspectorate said
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what cressida dick has announced the met police already going to look at. those are issues, of discipline, vetting, of standards, of culture, where article to be done by the police but of the offices of an independent chair. when the curious questions is how the two independent inquiries are actually going to relate to each other and whether one has primacy, because my understanding is that the government announced want to do is go to be a non statutory inquiry with no powers of compulsion, which is very much like the cressida dick establishment already, so we have at the moment two inquiries announced looking at very similar things and neither with statutory powers. fiifi very similar things and neither with statutory powers. statutory powers. ok, so the fact that neither statutory powers. ok, so the fact that neither have statutory powers. ok, so the fact that neither have statutory - statutory powers. ok, so the fact l that neither have statutory powers, does that mean they a
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such as the earth s climate. more than 200,000 pupils were off school in england last week over covid. and adele confirms her latest single. clara amfo will be with us just after 8:30pm. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the home secretary has announced an independent inquiry into the systematic failures that allowed a serving police officer to kidnap, rape and murder sarah everard. in her speech to the conservative party conference, priti patel said the public needs answers to ensure something like this can never happen again . last week, wayne couzens