Met's supervisory review policy for ‘Released Under Investigation,’ (RUI) cases

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.024530

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Hi - please could you confirm the Met's supervisory review policy for RUI cases?

Thanks but the link doesn't seem to contain the information I am after. For suspects released under investigation, how often are the cases supposed to be reviewed by a supervisory officer? Is it every month?

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Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Searches have been conducted in relation to your request and whilst there is no set policy in with regards to how often cases are supposed to be reviewed, I have been able to locate the text below which will give you an indicator of our processes.

The reason why there is no ‘set’ answer for this is because supervision of reports will differ dependant on, amongst other factors, the type of crime, any risk factors to individuals concerned etc.

For clarity in relation to the compliance for the 28 day rule (the update an officer in charge (OIC)) needs to give to someone who has been released under investigation (RUI), would be captured by the supervision of the investigation and not supervising compliance of the 28 day rule.

Focused Supervision

‘Focused supervision is a new concept which allows each supervisor to tailor the depth and frequency of supervision to the individual officer. The Supervisor should determine the level of supervision necessary based upon the capability of each of their officers, the nature of the incident presented to them and their assessment of the frequency of supervision required. It removes the burden upon supervisors to conduct detailed and routine supervision of each task conducted by every officer on their team and instead allows them to focus on the officers and incidents that need their attention the most, whilst allowing the more capable officers to operate in an expanded authorised environment.

The Supervisor still remains accountable for their decision-making and must ensure that they are confident in the capability of each officer before reducing levels of supervision for them. Their decisions in this regard should be fully documented and subject to regular review.

There remains a personal responsibility for each officer to bring to the attention of a supervisor reports, tasks, or incident which by their very nature in terms of threat, harm, opportunity and risk, should be subject to supervision or oversight. Each case should be treated on its merit with common sense applied in every case. The Supervisor will then determine whether full and detailed supervision is required.’