The 52-year-old was murdered by Robert Trigg, in 2011, five years after he had killed his previous partner, Caroline Devlin. olice failings caused or contributed to the death of Susan Nicholson at the hands of killer Robert Trigg, a jury has concluded. Jurors found that Sussex Police did not take reasonable measures to avoid harm […] […]
A police officer who was found to have twice sexually assaulted a junior colleague he had tried to start a relationship with has been dismissed. Sgt Gavin Hucks parked in remote locations before carrying out the attacks on Salisbury Plain and on the outskirts of Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Wiltshire Police’s deputy chief constable Paul Mills said […] […]
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the death of a 49-year-old man in police custody in Abingdon, Oxford. We have established the man was arrested by Thames Valley Police officers shortly before 5.30pm on Friday 25 June and taken to custody at Abingdon Police Station. At around 1.10am on Saturday, 26 June, […] […]
A prison officer is facing a jail sentence after he was caught with bags of cocaine and cannabis at HMP Edinburgh. David Lee Smith, 51, was sitting in his car when police officers swooped on him following a tip off. Officers found bags of cocaine along with wraps of cannabis and 181 street Valium tablets […] […]
No information has been provided by two potential new witnesses that undermines the conviction of a man for the notorius murder of a family more than 20 years ago, police said. Mandy Power, 34, her bed-ridden mother Doris Dawson, 80, and her daughters Katie, 10, and Emily, eight, were found dead by firefighters at their […] […]
PC Mohammed Malik was a hero to his family, friends, community, and fellow police officers – but his ‘unblemished reputation’ masked his entanglement in a dark web of serious organised crime. When he first joined Greater Manchester Police, Malik championed better relations between the Muslim community in Rochdale and the force, and looked forward to […] […]
On 1 July, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Democracy and the Constitution published a report following its inquiry on the policing of the Sarah Everard vigil in London and Kill the Bill protests in Bristol. The report highlights “significant failings” in the policing of both events. It sets out that the policing of the […] […]
An officer from Cambridge Constabulary who used PAVA spray to restrain a Polish man in a custody suite has been charged with racially aggravated assault by beating, assault by beating and administering a poison or noxious thing. The charges against Police Sergeant Gregory Wyss, 45, relate to the arrest and restraint of the man while […] […]
The athlete accused the force of “racially profiling” her, and her partner, Ricardo dos Santos, when they were handcuffed and separated from their three-month-old son. The three police officers are now subject to a gross misconduct investigation over “potential breaches of police standards of professional behaviour”, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has said. […] […]
A police inspector accused of treating a work conference as a “drinking expedition” has been found guilty of gross misconduct. And following the two-week disciplinary hearing, Inspector Jonathan Stansmore was sacked without notice. As reported, Mr Stansmore missed most of a National Cyber Protect Conference which he had travelled to in Cardiff in September 2019. […] […]
Bedfordshire police Professional Standards Department (PSD) has found the conduct of PS Matthew Carroll to be ‘not acceptable‘ in how he dealt with a 78 […]
A police officer who used the force’s computer systems to check details of a man she intended to go on a date with has been sacked. PC Teresa Lines also made a false entry in her notebook about why she attended the man’s house and then made a false allegation against the person who reported […] […]
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