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23/10/2012
Over 1,000 Police Names Passed to IPCC In Hillsborough Investigation
1,444 serving and former police officers have been passed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission as part of its investigation into the Hillsborough disaster.
Keith Vaz, the Home Affairs Committee chairman, told MPs the "huge number" had been revealed to him in a letter from South Yorkshire Police's chief constable.
The government said the number showed the "enormity" of the investigation, adding that the police watchdog probe would be "thorough and wide-ranging".
MPs were debating the Independent Hillsborough Panel Report, which last month found police and emergency services had made "strenuous attempts" to deflect the blame for the disaster - in which 96 people died - on to fans.
The independent panel revealed 164 police statements had been altered - 116 of them to remove or change negative comments about the policing of the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Sheffield stadium.
The panel also found that 41 of the 96 who had died had had the "potential to survive", and the attorney general last week asked the High Court to consider ordering fresh inquests into the deaths.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and the director of public prosecutions are both conducting inquiries into possible crimes committed by police.
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Keith Vaz, the Home Affairs Committee chairman, told MPs the "huge number" had been revealed to him in a letter from South Yorkshire Police's chief constable.
The government said the number showed the "enormity" of the investigation, adding that the police watchdog probe would be "thorough and wide-ranging".
MPs were debating the Independent Hillsborough Panel Report, which last month found police and emergency services had made "strenuous attempts" to deflect the blame for the disaster - in which 96 people died - on to fans.
The independent panel revealed 164 police statements had been altered - 116 of them to remove or change negative comments about the policing of the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Sheffield stadium.
The panel also found that 41 of the 96 who had died had had the "potential to survive", and the attorney general last week asked the High Court to consider ordering fresh inquests into the deaths.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and the director of public prosecutions are both conducting inquiries into possible crimes committed by police.
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