Forty-nine people have come forward to sit on a new police complaints panel.
The planned Complaints, Integrity and Ethics Panel will scrutinise how Thames Valley Police deals with complaints and is due to be set up within two months.
Seven candidates will now be selected from the 49 applicants.
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