article_snippet.sent: But the launch of Labour's criminal justice plans risked being over-shadowed by the news that the party's police adviser, Lord Stephens, is be investigated over hotly disputed allegations of a cover-up of police corruption in the bungled Stephen Lawrence murder probe.
article_snippet.sent: However, last night The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) emerged the former Metropolitan Police commissioner and crossbench peer, is to be investigated over the Macpherson Inquiry.
article_snippet.sent: 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: a complaint from Stephen’s father Neville Lawrence concerns a letter to the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998, in which Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington stated that no officer or former officer involved in giving evidence was under investigation for corruption.
article_snippet.sent: a complaint from Stephen’s father Neville Lawrence 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: ;And it doesn't show the right priorities to be spending significant sums on police and crime commissioners, nor to be ideologically opposed to the shared services and joint procurement that simply must be driven through.' 'Cover-up': Former Met Police commissioner Lord Stevens (left) is to be investigated into allegations of a cover-up over the IPCC probe in the nineties .
highlights_snippet.sent: Faces probe over claim Ex-Met chief Lord Stevens did not give information to Macpherson inquiry .