About Learning the Lessons

The Committee produces a bulletin with lessons from investigations which is circulated to police forces and other bodies with constabulary powers three times a year. These lessons are drawn from reports and information on investigations which the Committee receives from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on a regular basis.  The Committee decides which of these reports are of use to the police service in helping to improve policies and practices and includes those in the bulletin.  

You can find these bulletins under Bulletins.

Lessons drawn from the operations of the police complaints system are not confined to those in the bulletins. The IPCC publishes research into issues arising out of the police complaints system and this can be viewed here.

Reports of relevance are published on other members’ websites from time to time. Other organisations who produce useful material include: