Home Department written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.
Graeme Morrice
Labour, Livingston
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps is she taking to ensure the Independent Police Complaints Commission has the necessary powers and resources to conduct a robust examination of police tactics at Orgreave coke works during the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.
Damian Green
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office) , The Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice
We have legislated in the Police (Complaints and Conduct) Act 2012 to give the Independent Police Complaints Commission additional powers to enable it, in exceptional circumstances, to investigate matters which were previously outside its jurisdiction.
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