CPS Guidance: Intentional Police Shootings - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:08 pm on 29 October 2024.

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Photo of Lord Hermer Lord Hermer The Attorney-General 3:08, 29 October 2024

In respect of consultation with all relevant stakeholders across the range of reviews that we are undertaking, we have taken the measures agreed by the previous Government and we have gone further, and the details of that were set out last week by my right honourable friend the Home Secretary in the other place. In respect of anonymity, the Home Secretary set out that that is a measure we are going to take; there will be a presumption of anonymity in those cases. Ultimately it will rest upon the discretion of a trial judge.