If they are not suspended from there duties what is there status then ?Slightly sensationalist thread title based on a sensationalist Telegraph headline. As people have said, this is normal procedure and one can't help but feel the headline was designed to needlessly provoke outrage in people. People see these headlines, don't actually read the article and then that's what gets passed on/remembered. "Oh, did you hear those coppers got suspended. Political correctness gone mad!".