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Home Secretary response and letters: Operation Midland

Response to Sir Richard Henriques' open letter on Operation Midland. Letters to the MPS and IOPC requesting that they address Sir Richard’s specific questions.

Updates to this page

From:
Home Office and The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP
Published:
17 March 2021
Last updated:
10 May 2021
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  1. Added 'Letter from Dame Cressida Dick (MPS) to Sir Richard Henriques', 'Letter from Michael Lockwood, Director General Independent Office for Police Conduct', 'Annex A: Summary of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) response to Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) recommendations to the MPS' and 'Annex B: Metropolitan Police Service update on Operation Midland recommendations'.

  2. First published.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Letter from Home Secretary to Sir Richard Henriques (accessible version)

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Letter from Home Secretary to Sir Richard Henriques

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Letter from Home Secretary to Michael Lockwood (IOPC) (accessible version)

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Letter from Home Secretary to Michael Lockwood (IOPC)

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Letter from Home Secretary to Dame Cressida Dick (MPS) (accessible version)

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Letter from Dame Cressida Dick (MPS) to Sir Richard Henriques (accessible version)

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Letter from Dame Cressida Dick (MPS) to Sir Richard Henriques

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Annex A: Summary of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) response to Independent Office for Police Conduct and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services recommendations to the MPS (accessible version)

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Annex A: Summary of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) response to Independent Office for Police Conduct and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services recommendations to the MPS

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Annex B: Metropolitan Police Service update on Operation Midland recommendations (accessible version)

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Annex B: Metropolitan Police Service update on Operation Midland recommendations

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Letter from Michael Lockwood, Director General Independent Office for Police Conduct (accessible version)

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On 11 February, Sir Richard Henriques published an open letter to the Home Secretary, requesting answers to a number of questions relating to the conduct of Operation Midland, an MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) investigation into allegations of non-recent child sexual abuse, and the IOPC’s (Independent Office for Police Conduct) subsequent investigation, Operation Kentia.

The Home Secretary is responding to Sir Richard’s letter and has asked the MPS and IOPC to respond to Sir Richard’s questions that pertain to decisions made by them.

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