No misconduct before Alfie Steele Droitwich murder, police watchdog says

A police power that repeatedly met the household of a nine-year-old boy who was later murdered in his house “didn’t sufficiently prepare frontline officers to establish little one abuse”, a police watchdog report stated.Alfie Steele was killed by his mom and her associate at their house in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in 2021 and the pair had been jailed two years later.Twenty instances when West Mercia Police had contact with Alfie and the couple had been examined by the Impartial Workplace for Police Conduct (IOPC) which concluded there was “no indication of misconduct” by any officer.Alfie’s grandfather Paul Scott stated: “We see nothing within the report that reveals any change, it’s a waste of public cash.”