Dame Who? IPCC! Oxymoron or what?

Dame Anne Owers

Dame Anne Owers was appointed Chair of the IPCC in February 2012 for a five year term.  Her role is part time and non-executive.

 

Anne was HM Chief Inspector of Prisons from 2001 to 2010 with a remit that included inspections of prisons, immigration removal centres and police custody.  Between 2010 and 2011 she chaired an independent review of the prison system in Northern Ireland.  She is currently a non-executive director of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and holds a number of voluntary roles, mainly in the area of penal policy and activity.

 

Just try to get in touch with this lady!  Once the IPCC process has been finalised - to the Police's satisfaction - all victims and their immediate families can go and jump.  A simple phone call on the IPCC line with a request for either an address or email contact with the leader of this shambollick organisation, results only in being brusquely told "you've gone as far as you go, lump it".  Whilst the Home Affairs Committee under the stewardship of Kieth Vaz plays lip service to equality and justice, some of the urgent questions needed of asking of the IPCC go unasked.

This committee has invited the mother of Stephen Lawrence and I applaud her tenacity, but what about illegally killed veteran Englishmen whose loved ones need access to the publicity and legal voices denied in the Shires and to indigenous inhabitant?