Suella Braverman: Home Secretary orders review into police impartiality

The location caput has launched a reappraisal into constabulary impartiality arsenic she accused officers of "being progressive successful governmental matters".

Suella Braverman has instructed an probe into what she calls an "unacceptable rise" successful constabulary taking a broadside connected arguable issues.

She cited officers taking the genu oregon dancing with protesters astatine parades.

Labour criticised the location caput for commissioning a study "into her ain governmental obsession".

Ms Braverman wants the reports findings by March, the Home Office said.

The policing exemplary successful England and Wales means that the constabulary should, astatine each times, follow a presumption of governmental neutrality.

In her missive to policing leaders, Ms Braverman said constabulary should absorption connected tackling crime, alternatively than being progressive successful governmental matters.

She wants policing leaders to guarantee forces' clip is ever spent connected the public's priorities.

Ms Braverman said: "The British radical expect their constabulary to absorption connected cutting transgression and protecting communities - governmental activism does not support radical safe, lick crimes oregon enactment victims, but tin harm nationalist confidence.

"The reappraisal I've commissioned volition research whether the constabulary getting progressive successful politically contentious matters is having a detrimental interaction connected policing."

Ms Braverman highlighted cases wherever she believes nationalist assurance has been damaged by constabulary engaging successful contentious issues.

These see policing gender-critical views connected societal media, behaviour astatine governmental marches and officers taking the knee, the Home Office said.

His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has been commissioned by the Home Secretary to look astatine whether operational policing successful England and Wales is being influenced.

The HMICFRS reappraisal has been asked to screen the prime and neutrality of grooming and communications with the nationalist connected issues - including societal media.

But, Labour said the location caput is wasting her time.

A Party spokesperson told the BBC: "Instead of mounting retired superior applicable policies to tackle Tory failures, each the Home Secretary is doing is commissioning reports into her ain governmental obsessions - and portion she's doing this, much criminals are being fto disconnected and much victims are being fto down."

The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) declined to comment, but it is understood the assemblage views this arsenic a governmental matter.