POLICE officers who are found guilty of misconduct should be named and shamed, according to a commissioner. Hampshire’s police and crime commissioner, Donna Jones, recently spoke out against police officers keeping their anonymity after facing disciplinary proceedings. It comes after a number of incidents where police officers could not be named by the press, after […] […]
An “abhorrent” former Metropolitan Police officer raped two women while he was working for the force – but will not face any criminal charges. Former sergeant Paul Storey raped and assaulted the two women between 2012 and 2017. The officer resigned from his post in May last year. A Met Police misconduct hearing heard that […] […]
Two police officers have been dismissed after a drunken train journey that involved ‘sexualised dancing’ and a fight with a fellow passenger. A third police officer involved has left the force voluntarily. All three were the subject of a Thames Valley Police misconduct hearing, the results of which were published this month. The hearing was […] […]
A Cleveland Police officer who disclosed personal information about a man to his ex-partner as an “ice breaker” during the breakdown of his relationship has been dismissed with immediate effect. PC Christopher Lowerson told his former girlfriend whilst off duty that the victim, who can only be identified as Mr A, was not able to […] […]
PC Jared Gobey has been given a final written warning after being found to have breached standards of professional behaviour. Based in Bognor, Gobey faced allegations of breaching standards of giving a misleading account of an incident involving a distressed man. He failed to leave a building he was in to speak to the man, […] […]
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A judge has listed a number of “failings” by the Police Ombudsman’s office (PONI) following an inquest hearing earlier this week. On Monday, Judge Philip Babington ruled that police were justified in using lethal force against Neil McConville when he was shot near Lisburn in April 2003, trying to evade police in a car, during […] […]
A serving Essex Police officer has been given a final written warning after he committed gross misconduct by sexually assaulting a female colleague. PC Matthew Henderson was a student officer and drunk and off-duty at the time of the incident in September 2021. A gross misconduct hearing was held at Chelmsford Civic Centre on Monday […] […]
A Met Police officer has been found guilty of assaulting his partner by grabbing her hair and forcing her to the floor in Essex. Former Detective Sergeant Nathaniel Lee carried out the attack while a serving officer. The former sergeant had been based at the Met’s East Area Command Unit, and appeared at Colchester Magistrates’ […] […]
An officer from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) who caused the death of a pedestrian by careless driving has been dismissed without notice following a disciplinary hearing. At an accelerated hearing, organised by the force and chaired by Acting Deputy Commissioner Helen Ball, gross misconduct allegations were found proven against Police Constable Daniel Francis, 33, […] […]
A disgraced Met Police officer has quit the force after being convicted of attacking a taxi driver while off duty in Essex. PC Gareth Head was charged following an investigation by the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) into the incident in Brentwood. The police constable stood trial last year for two counts of racially […] […]
Three victims of grooming gangs in Rochdale have received “substantial” damages and a personal apology from the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP). The women met Stephen Watson, the top officer at GMP, at force headquarters on Tuesday afternoon to be given the apology in person for police failings when, as children, they were […] […]
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