Police should release details like ethnicity of suspects to be transparent with the public after major incidents, police leaders have said Parade Crash in Liverpool,
Meerseyside police revealed that the suspect was a “white British” man who was less than two hours after a car Liverpool FC’s Premier League win parade is injuring 79 people, pledge among fans On Monday.
Gavin Stephens, Chairman of the National Council of Police (NPCC), Defeated decision – Which has been described as a “full step change” from the same force point of view to release information after last year’s knife attack in Southport.
The police was Criticism for not releasing more information Regarding the attacker, who killed three schoolgirls, after false rumors about their religion and refuge, helped to fuel far-flung riots, which were enraged across the country.
Chief Constable Stephens said that the police is working at an age where information is rapidly shared and the truth may be “deadly” for disintegration.
“We have to work on the basis of transparency and openness,” he said. “When it is right to do this to release the information, we should do so.”
However, he warned that the police never want to endanger any court proceedings, and there may be opportunities where they cannot release information to the public.
His comments have come after the agreed forces of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Role, which must release more frequent personal details about the suspects.
Sir Mark told the BBC Radio 4’s Today program: “I am not going to criticize another police chief who decides in a really difficult, complex position.
“Every matter needs to be given its merits. I think as soon as we move forward in the future, we always want to be more transparent in terms of the data released by us.
“Sometimes the nature of the investigation, the nature of the case, it makes it difficult, but in theory, transparency is good.”
Asked if it is the way to move forward soon to declare the ethnicity of a suspect, Sir Mark said: “In general, I think we should be realistic and more often … first publicly put more personal details in public, first.”
He said that we are in the era of citizen journalism and some materials will “be very, very early on social media”.
He said, “People will be guessing and concluding – I think in that world, excluding more facts is the only way to deal with it,” he said.
“And if those facts embrace racists in some cases, we need to face those individuals.
“I think it is going to be very difficult to try to avoid the truth when the public domain has half-truth.”
Mayor of Liverpool City Metro Steve Roderham said it was “to do exactly the right thing” to release details about the parade suspect for online speculation.
He said on Tuesday, “If you already take a look on social media, within a few minutes of the incident, there were speculation, and there were some nefarious groups responsible for it, who were responsible for it, trying to speculate.
“So the whole idea was that for some on the bed, of course, wrong information and disintegration that was out of there, and to try to calm people.”
The Mercesis police said the authorities were given additional time to question the 53 -year -old man from West Derby, Liverpool, which is being placed on suspicion of murder, dangerous driving and drug driving.
A force spokesperson said that seven people remained in the hospital in a stable position on Wednesday and they have now identified a total of 79 people who were injured in the incident.
