The police oversight body has not yet secured essential witness testimony from Nottinghamshire Police’s former senior officer for its investigations into the force. The Independent Office for Police Conduct recently told the public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks that completing two investigations depends on receiving testimony from former Chief Constable Kate Meynell. While Ms. Meynell gave evidence to the Nottingham Inquiry on March 20, more than a month later she still has not provided her statements to the IOPC. According to sources, arrangements are being made to gather Ms. Meynell’s witness accounts, and IOPC leadership previously stated that once those statements are obtained, two crucial investigations should wrap up promptly. Both investigations relate to Nottinghamshire Police’s handling of Valdo Calocane’s violent assaults on June 13, 2023, which killed Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates. The IOPC currently has three live investigations into Nottinghamshire Police’s handling of the Nottingham attacks, along with another it may reopen and a separate review involving Leicestershire Police. The two investigations awaiting Ms. Meynell’s witness statements include one looking at a confidential media briefing held by Nottinghamshire Police in February 2024 and the force’s decision to lodge a complaint about the Nottingham Post’s coverage of it. The briefing began with attending media organisations being asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement, although the Nottingham Post chose to publish information from the briefing anyway on public interest grounds. Nottinghamshire Police raised a complaint with the press regulator IPSO about our coverage of this briefing, claiming we were not obliged to sign a non-disclosure agreement, even though we had done so. In her inquiry evidence, Ms. Meynell described the complaint to the press regulator, which the regulator immediately threw out, as a mistake. The second investigation, triggered by a complaint to the IOPC from the victims’ families in March 2024, concerns Ms. Meynell directly. Specifically, it is looking at what she knew or ought to have known about Valdo Calocane, together with her dealings with the bereaved families. Emma Webber said they were extremely let down that Kate Meynell had still not handed over her witness statements to the IOPC. They had instructed their lawyers to raise their concerns with the IOPC’s Director General, Rachel Watson. They deserved better, and her behaviour continued to cause severe and cruel distress. It was unforgivable. Nottinghamshire Police said in October 2025 that Kate Meynell would leave her post as Chief Constable after a cancer diagnosis that spring, and she officially stepped down in March 2026. The former police chief had been due to begin a fresh policing post in April, before deciding against taking up the role after giving evidence to the Nottingham Inquiry. The East Midlands Special Operations Unit is currently considering whether to scrap the position Ms. Meynell had applied for altogether. Steve Cooper has meantime been appointed as Ms. Meynell’s permanent replacement as Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police.