Policing Of The Miners' Strike 1984-85

EDM number 775 in 2012-13, proposed by Ian Lavery on 26/11/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Coal, Industrial relations and Police.

That this House notes with profound concern reports in a recent BBC documentary alleging that some police who were involved in prosecutions following the infamous violence at the Orgreave Coke plant in South Yorkshire colluded when they wrote their statements; further notes that the 95 miners who were charged with riot and unlawful assembly at Orgreave were all acquitted a year later; believes that the alleged manipulation of statements raises further serious questions about the conduct of South Yorkshire Police in the 1980s; further believes that the decision of South Yorkshire Police to refer themselves to the Independent Police Complaints Commission is too little too late; and calls on the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate South Yorkshire Police in tandem with the Independent Police Complaints Commission; and further believes that the Director of Public Prosecutions should also deliver a full comprehensive inquiry into the policing of the miners' strike throughout the UK to ensure miners, their families and communities finally receive the justice they deserve.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.