Oversight/review Of Police Processes
There appears to be no agency with a mandate to investigate police processes. The ombudsmen explicitly can't, and the IPCA don't seem to do it. This leaves a serious accountability and oversight gap, if the Police's processes are faulty or unjust individuals should be able to raise a complaint and have the processes reviewed and corrected.
Should this be with the Ombudsmen's Office or the IPCA?
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Huh, it appears that the IPCA's enabling legislation says they can actually review processes they just don't talk about doing it anywhere in their SoI, website or complaints forms.
I will chase this up with the IPCA, so let's put this one on hold in the meantime.
The IPCA finally got back to me, and they do investigate Police processes and can and do accept complaints about them. Their website has been updated, they have a new brochure and the new SOI looks clearer.
So this is no longer necessary, I'm not quite sure how to handle ending the life of a topic tho… :)
The whole process has, however, convinced me we need to extend the OIA to the IPCA (or remove their exemption) as it shouldn't've taken five months and this much chasing to get an answer, and the only mechanism to address their repeated non-responses was their Minister. I shall go add it to the Open Government topic.