{"value":{"id":774315,"memberId":1561,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Minister of State for Fire and Policing","uin":"HCWS187","dateMade":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","title":"Appointment of the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)","text":"<p>I am today announcing the Crown appointment of Michael Lockwood as the first Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), part of the package of measures which will create a stronger, clearer governance framework for the police complaints and discipline systems.</p><p> </p><p>The Policing and Crime Act 2017 provides for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), to be reformed and renamed as the IOPC. The existing Commission will be replaced by a single executive head of the organisation, the Director General, with corporate governance provided by a unitary Board comprising a majority of non-executive members. The reforms are planned to come into effect in January 2018.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":1,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":774317,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2017-10-20T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/774315","method":"GET"}]}