New suspect ethnicity guidance ‘may not stop spread of disinformation’, policing minister admits
A minister admitted that the disinformation could spread to the ethnic origin of the suspects despite the new police guidance aiming to share more information of the public.
The temporary guidance of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) and the Police College comes after the authorities are accused of meeting the crimes against asylum seekers.
The new guidance says the police should consider explaining the extra details of the suspects accused of high -profile and sensitive investigations.
Police Minister Dame Diana Diana Johnson said that the government is “very supportive olmak when the forces are as open and transparent as possible while announcing the accusation decisions.
“Now we say that it should contain nationality and ethnicity unless it is a very good reason not to do this,” he said. Sky News.
However, if ethnic origin information is published, disinformation could still spread.
He said: “(Disinformation) is a greater problem for society, but for certain individuals, what is normally responsible, information is published.
That was what happened before. “
When Mersexide police was arrested on suspicion of murder after attacked children in Taylor Swift-Thhemed Dance in Merseyside town last July, Axel Rudakabana’s ethnicity did not reveal the ethnic origin, and the change could fight against the spread of false information in social media.
During the hours after the attack, the suspect’s 17 -year -old asylum seekers who came to the country with the boat last year, claiming that the duties spread to the internet.
At the first press conference after the event, at 18:30 that day, Merseyside Police Chief Serena Kennedy told reporters that the suspect was from Cardiff at the beginning.
However, the police statement did very little to suppress the online false information, and the next day the uprisings exploded throughout the country.
In a separate incident in May, Liverpool revealed the rumors of an incident that was put into the crowd during the Premier League Victory Gate ceremony was a terrorist attack, and the power of a man who was white and British immediately revealed the ethnic origin and nationality of a man who was arrested immediately.
Dame Diana said the government’s Legal Commission asked the Legal Commission to examine the guidance to ensure that any future hearing was not prejudiced by the police.
The guidance, which comes into force immediately, encourages the police to share their national and ethnic origin information when there is a Purpose to do this ”. This may include public security, high levels of incorrect information or disinformation risk or significant public interest.
It also confirms that a suspect’s migration is not the role or responsibility of the police.
At the beginning of this month, Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner Philip Seccombe pressured the Minister of the Interior for an emergency update after the accusation of two men after the Afghan asylum seekers were reported to be an emergency.
After the force was criticized by the reform UK, he rejected a “covering”. When asked whether a suspect’s asylum status will be shared with new guidance, Dame Diana said to BBC Breakfast: “It is not something that the home office has commented in terms of asylum practices by individuals.”
NPCC’s communication and media leadership, Vice President Sam de Reya, who announced the new guidance, showed that last summer disorder shows that the public goods were “big, real world results”.
“In the age of social media speculation, we should make sure that our processes are suitable for the purpose and that the information can travel incredibly quickly on a wide range of channels,” he added.
“Disinformation and false narratives can be kept in a gap. It is a good police work for us to fill this gap with facts about wider public interest issues.”
Emily Spurrell of the Association of Police and Crime Commissaries added that there is a “open need için to update the guidance of the forces.
“We have seen the danger of the online spread rate of wrong or disinformation and the danger that may cause public security, so the right police inform the people as much as possible while maintaining the right of a suspect’s right to a fair trial.”
