A new investigation into the custody sergeant who was found to have lied under oath at the Sean Rigg inquest has been launched by the Independent Police Complaints Commission amid criticisms about its original investigation which found no wrongdoing against any of the officers involved in his death.

“Nothing could prepare us for the unnecessary battle we were about to face for the next four years to find out the truth about how our brother died on the evening of Thursday 21 August 2008. It has been a roller-coaster of emotions.

The police watchdog will not investigate the case of an elderly couple who lay dead in their car for up to 10 days following a landslide.

Metropolitan police officers have been accused of a “gross dereliction of duty” for placing a mentally ill man in a potentially fatal position in the back of a police van, an inquest heard.

A police officer cleared yesterday of the manslaughter of a homeless man had been allowed to serve in a specialist riots unit despite a string of previous complaints about his heavy-handed tactics, it can be revealed.

Mrs Lawrence had called for a public inquiry into whether corrupt officers shielded her son's killers

A custody officer employed by G4S has resigned after a prisoner was found collapsed in his cell.

Mother of murder victim will tell MPs that changes need to be made to the IPCC

An inquest into the death of an Irish toddler in a holiday car crash which left his parents fighting for life is to open on Monday.

Nearly half of all people who appear to have committed suicide after being released by police were known to be mentally ill, a watchdog has warned.

A mother whose two-year-old son died in a head-on collision has also lost her unborn baby, police said today.

A Chief Constable is being investigated over a claim that he used "undue influence" in relation to a criminal investigation.

A police force's chief constable is being investigated over an allegation that he used “undue influence” in relation to a criminal investigation.

Police officers under investigation over deaths in the line of duty should be compelled to attend interviews to show that they cannot defy the independent police watchdog, its new chairman said last night.