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Cleverly: Anyone not fit to wear uniform must be removed from policing

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Police officers will be automatically suspended in future if charged with certain criminal offences, the Home Secretary has said.

James Cleverly said action is being taken to address public confidence in the police, telling the Commons: “Anyone who is not fit to wear the uniform for whatever reason must be removed from policing and every effort must be made to ensure that similar people never join.”

Mr Cleverly, responding to the first part of an independent report on killer police officer Wayne Couzens, reminded about efforts to give police chiefs

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