IOPCThe former head of the police watchdog has been charged with rape and other sexual offences against a girl under the age of 16.
Michael Lockwood, the former director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.
Lockwood, 64, stepped down from his role at the IOPC in December after it emerged he was the subject of a police probe into a historical allegation.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between October 1985 and March 1986.
He is due to appear before magistrates in Hull on June 28
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