article_snippet.sent: Last night the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will investigate claims that the former Met chief failed to hand over key information to the Macpherson Inquiry regarding the black teenager’s race hate killing.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Stevens was deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1998 to 2000 – while the the Macpherson Inquiry report was being compiled – before serving five years as the UK’s most senior policeman. '
article_snippet.sent: a complaint last October about the failure of senior officers during the Macpherson Inquiry concerns a letter to the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998, in which Mr Stevens stated that no officer or former officer involved in giving evidence was under investigation for corruption.
article_snippet.sent: a complaint last October about the failure of senior officers during the Macpherson Inquiry is alleged that a letter to the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998, in which Lord Stevens stated that no officer or former officer involved in giving evidence was under investigation for corruption included misleading information.
article_snippet.sent: A source said: ‘Any suggestion that anyone from the Met would seek to withhold the truth from the Macpherson Inquiry at that time is completely untrue.
article_snippet.sent: ‘This issue was raised in the Stephen Lawrence Independent Review by Mark Ellison QC, where Mr Stevens concluded there were defects in the level of information that the Metropolitan Police revealed to the Macpherson Inquiry.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Stevens had asked IPCC to look into alleged failures of senior officers, including Mr Stevens, to provide ‘full, frank and truthful’ information to the Macpherson Inquiry as well as claims that hundreds of files on past major police corruption probes were shredded.
article_snippet.sent: In 1998, five years after Mr Stevens was murdered in south east London, retired High Court judge Sir William Macpherson was appointed to head an inquiry into the killing.
article_snippet.sent: Jack Straw, who was the Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 during the time of The Macpherson Report, has previously declared that ordering the inquiry was 'the single most important decision I made as Home Secretary'.
article_snippet.sent: Lord Stevens originally stated in 1998 that no officer or former officer involved in giving evidence was under investigation for corruption.
highlights_snippet.sent: Was Deputy Commissioner from 1998 to 2000 when report was being made .
  