HC Deb 27 June 1991 vol 193 c520W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what channels exist for senior police officers to vindicate themselves following false accusations being brought against them.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Where a senior officer has been the subject of a false allegation by a member of the public, it is open to him, as it is to anyone else, to bring a civil action against that person.