The Home Affairs Committee will question Baroness on Wednesday 22 March about
the findings and recommendations of her review into the culture
and standards of behaviour in the Metropolitan Police Service,
scheduled to be published on Tuesday 21 March.
The review was launched in October 2021, following the sentencing
of Wayne Couzens, with a remit to examine the police force’s
leadership, recruitment, vetting, training and communications.
Outlining her interim findings, Baroness Casey found that the
misconduct system is “not delivering in a way the public would
expect it to” and requires “radical and wholesale reform”.
The Committee will then question Minister for Security, on the findings of the independent Prevent
Review, published in February. Launched in 2003, Prevent is the
UK’s intervention programme to stop people becoming terrorists or
supporting terrorism.
In his review, William Shawcross found that the programme was
“broadly right in its objectives” and fulfilled many of its
function to good effect. However it also warned that its focus
had widened beyond its original scope to include safeguarding,
funded projects without a clear terror-prevention purpose, and
underplayed the role of ideology in the development of terrorist
behaviour.
The session will examine the Government’s current assessment of
the terrorism threat in the UK from Islamist, extreme right-wing
and other motivations. It will also investigate the Government’s
response to the Shawcross Review and ask what plans it has to
implement its recommendations.
Witnesses
Wednesday 22 March Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
From 2.45pm:
- The DBE CB,
Leader of the Casey Review into the culture of the Metropolitan
Police Service
3.45pm:
- Rt Hon , Minister for Security,
Home Office
