Complaints: Crime
Commons · Question 52939 · Tabled 16 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 23 May 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing criminal penalties for individuals who knowingly make (a) false and (b) malicious complaints for (i) political and (ii) reputation
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 23 May 2025
The Home Office is unable to comment on or intervene in individual police investigations, so as not to undermine Policing’s operational independence. Where a police force investigates an individual, we expect the force to determine how best to support tho...