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Student NotesNOT PROTECTIVELY MARKEDincompetent officer.3. Police Disciplinary CodesWill ensure that racist words/acts lead to disciplinary proceedings,and such conduct should merit dismissal.4. Stop & SearchThat practices be revised to ensure transparency in practice and thepublic be made aware of the priorities of this law and their rightsunder it.5. Recruitment and SelectionThat policing plans include targets for recruitment, retention, andprogression of ethnic minority staff.What are the implications of this case for you? Whether or not you cananswer this question, you are strongly encouraged to consult the more indepth material on the ‘Introduction to Diversity’ e-learning package. TheLook at thewebsiteimportance of this case cannot be over stressed.More information on the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry can also be found at:http://www.archive.officialdocuments.co.uk/document/cm42/4262/4262.htmHaroldShipmanconvicted ofmurderingfifteen formerpatients andone case offorgeryThe Shipman InquiryThis is a statement taken from: www.shipman-inquiry.org.uk Given byDame Janet Smith DBE, Chairman of the Shipman Inquiry.“On 31st January 2000, Harold Fredrick Shipman was convicted by a jury atPreston Crown Court of murdering fifteen former patients and of forging awill of one of them. He had killed them by administering lethal doses ofdiamorphine. He was sentenced to fifteen concurrent terms of lifeimprisonment and in passing sentence Mr Justice Forbes told him that in hiscase life imprisonment would mean that he would remain in prison until hisdeath.All fifteen of Shipman's victims had lived in Hyde, Manchester. Shipman hadIND01(AS)_EthicsandValues_SNVersion 1.01 NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Page 32 of 82© College of Policing Limited 2013
Student NotesNOT PROTECTIVELY MARKEDbeen a well-respected general practitioner until his arrest for the murder ofMrs Kathleen Grundy in September 1998. As the evidence emerged duringthe trial, there were many who could not believe that Shipman would everhave harmed a patient. The sense of shock and disbelief following theconvictions reverberated around the world. Nowhere was it felt moredeeply than in Hyde. Many more people in Hyde besides the friends andfamilies of the fifteen known victims were concerned that the deaths of theirloved ones might not have been natural.There was also general concern that a doctor had been able to amass largequantities of diamorphine and to kill so many patients without detection.Why had the regulations which require a record to be made of theacquisition and supply of all controlled drugs, failed to prevent Shipmanfrom obtaining diamorphine illicitly? Why had this not been noticed,especially in view of his convictions for drug abuse in 1976? Why had oursystems of death certification with the availability of post mortemexamination and coroner's inquest failed to detect and arrest the progressof this serial killer?February2000 set upprivateinquiryIn response to these concerns, in February 2000 the Secretary of State forHealth set up an Inquiry, under the National Health Service Act 1977.Although its report was to be made public, the panel, to be chaired by LordLaming of Tewin, was to sit in private.Many people in Hyde were dissatisfied with that aspect of theInquiry. A group of relatives of known or suspected victims ofShipman applied to the High Court for judicial review of theSecretary of State's decision. Associated Newspapers Limited andother media groups made a similar application. In July 2000, thoseDecember2000 PublicInquirylaunchedapplications succeeded and in September, the Secretary of Stateannounced that the Laming Inquiry would be disbanded. Instead, hewould invite Parliament to set up a public inquiry under the Tribunalsof Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921. In December 2000, I was invited toconduct that public inquiry. On 31st January 2006, Parliamentappointed me as Chairman and confirmed the Inquiry's terms ofIND01(AS)_EthicsandValues_SNVersion 1.01 NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Page 33 of 82© College of Policing Limited 2013
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