Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)

The IOPC, formerly the Independent Police Complaints Commission, is the government body charged with investigating police misconduct. 

It has no formal role in the Undercover Policing Inquiry, though it has conducted investigations of relevance to its work.

Most notably, this included Operation Hibiscus, Dilvinder Norris & Edward Parsons, Operation Hibiscus: Investigation into the shredding of material potentially relevant to the planned Undercover Policing Public Inquiry, Independent Office for Police Conduct, 19 Nov 2019.  an 'Investigation into the shredding of material potentially relevant to the planned Undercover Policing Public Inquiry' and other issues of misbehavour by the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit following complaints by Baroness Jenny Jones. Darren Walton, Operation Gilbert: Investigation into allegations that members of the NDEDIU illegally accessed the email accounts of environmental campaigners and sympathetic journalists, Independent Office for Police Conduct, 8 Nov 2019. Edward Parsons, Investigation into the deletion of material relating to Baroness Jenny Jones and/or the Undercover Policing Inquiry, Independent Office for Police Conduct, 14 Nov 2019.

This is addressed further under the topic of Assurance.

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