"Emma Webber said new allegations about staff at the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) had left families asking whom they could trust. The IOPC is examining the response of police involved in the case of Valdo Calocane, who killed three people. Its investigators are reported to have told Leicestershire police officers who failed to arrest Calocane a month before the stabbings that their disciplinary case was politically motivated and was being driven by the families of the victims."
"This bombshell that the officers themselves have now made a formal complaint with regards to their investigation and interviews in the investigation itself, it's just mind-blowing. It's indicative of the whole sorry, terrible, tragic mess and the car crash of our institutions. How disrespectful and inhumane is that, you know? To think that it is politically driven. We just want the truth and people that just didn't do their jobs properly or failed or were neglectful, they must be held to account."
Allegations have emerged that investigators at the Independent Office for Police Conduct told Leicestershire officers that a disciplinary inquiry into their handling of Valdo Calocane was politically motivated and driven by the victims' families. Calocane killed three people after officers reportedly failed to arrest him despite an outstanding warrant for previous violence. Officers allege they were told they would receive words of advice or reflective practice rather than serious discipline. The mother of one victim described those comments as disrespectful and inhumane and said families now question whom they can trust. The IOPC has commissioned an external investigation and says it is treating the allegations extremely seriously.
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