A former overseas expert of the local police watchdog said he felt manipulated during his time in the Independent Police Complaints Council when helping the watchdog to investigate police action during the anti-fugitive protests. Clifford Stott, a British professor of social psychology who sat on the international expert panel advising the IPCC before all panel members called it quits after criticizing the watchdog for lacking an independent investigative capability. In an event organized by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong this evening, Stott recalled his time of working in the IPCC's international experts panel and said he felt manipulated. In another media interview, Stott said he is going to publish a separate report next month on police handling of the anti-fugitive social unrest. Last month, the IPCC has released a 999-page report on police actions during the anti-fugitive bill protests since June 9 last year.

Source: The Standard June 11, 2020 12:11 UTC