Security Of Video Evidence In Police Investigations

EDM number 1783 in 2008-09, proposed by Harry Cohen on 30/06/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Death and Police.

That this House notes the interview in the July edition of Labour Briefing magazine with Marcia Rigg-Samuel, sister of Sean Rigg, who died on 21 August 2008 shortly after being arrested and restrained by police in Brixton; further notes that Ms Rigg-Samuel refers to the investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) as `neither fair nor transparent', that she considers that the IPCC has treated the family of Sean Rigg unfairly, that she has expressed concern that it could take up to six years for an inquest to be held and that she has remarked that, while Chief Inspector Suzanne Wallis told the family that the closed circuit television camera was working, the family has subsequently been told that a substantial amount of the footage from that camera has gone missing; and considers that, in every instance where a death in police custody has occurred or where there is closed circuit television evidence of a major crime, a named officer should have the responsibility for safely securing such evidence and should be subject to disciplinary sanctions should such action not be taken.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.