Huddersfield

I last noticed progress with the inquiry into the fatal shooting on the M62 near Huddersfield at reference 1, about four months ago. The notice at reference 2 is dated October 4th and so has probably not changed since then.

The promise of criminal proceedings continues to be used as cover for the lack of any further information, although we are given no clue as to at whom these proceedings might be directed. And I for one am starting to get uncomfortable with the lack of visible progress, with result that the difficulty that the police seem to have admitting when they have made a mistake or when they have a problem is what is uppermost in my mind. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I continue to think that there must have been a mistake or worse.

Rather different rules seem to apply to the attempted murder of a career criminal (aka double agent) from Russia. But perhaps in a year's time this one will have vanished from view too.

PS: all of this being complicated - and quite possibly slowed down even further - by the metamorphosis of the IPCC into the IOPC. To quote: 'We became the IOPC in January 2018. Before this, we were the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Since 2013, we have doubled in size and now take on six times as many investigations. This led us to ask the Home Office for structural changes to better suit our much-expanded organisation. These changes were agreed through the Policing and Crime Act 2017'. And careful readers will already have spotted the change of address of reference 2.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/huddersfield.html.

Reference 2: https://policeconduct.gov.uk/news/investigation-update-–-fatal-police-shooting-yassar-yaqub-huddersfield.

Reference 3: https://policeconduct.gov.uk/.