A former Dorset Police constable who carried out unsolicited physical contact and made sexually explicit comments to female colleagues has been found guilty of gross misconduct and would have been dismissed from the Force had he not already resigned. On Tuesday 21 September 2021 Dorset Police held a Special Case Hearing at Devon & Cornwall […] […]
Darren Collins, 56, a digital forensic specialist based at Police Headquarters in Stafford, previously admitted misconduct in a public office after accessing over 3,000 images between January 2014 and December 2018. A number of the images downloaded were official police photographs of crime scenes and post mortems, which are taken to provide evidence of scenes […] […]
Gordon Brown and Theresa May have given their support for key changes to the legal system to prevent others going through what the bereaved families of Britain’s worst sporting disaster experienced over decades. Ninety-seven men, women and children died in the tragedy at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield on […] […]
Two serving police officers face a misconduct hearing after allegedly acting in a drunk and disorderly manner during a train journey. A third officer will also face a hearing over the same incident, but she has since resigned. The hearing, to take place later this month, relates to police constables Ben Pecorini and Myles Mykoo […] […]
A Surrey Police officer previously awarded for “outstanding victim care” will face a misconduct hearing this week for alleged inappropriate contact with a vulnerable female victim of crime. PC Kuldip Bhart is accused of gross misconduct after allegedly communicating with the victim on his police phone for no police purpose and sending personal messages which […] […]
A Hertfordshire Constabulary police officer is facing disciplinary action after it was alleged he sent “racist, sexist, homophobic and inappropriate” text messages. PC Chris Thompson will sit before a misconduct hearing next week following the allegations that he sent the messages between December 2009 and October 2011. Another allegation claims the officer also failed to […] […]
A Special Constable with Northamptonshire Police has resigned after lying about using police systems to find out about a man who had been arrested. Former SC Ross Dykes was subject of a gross misconduct hearing after he accessed police systems in December 2020. According to a report released by the force, Mr Dykes breached the […] […]
Oliver Perry-Smith, 38, who serves with Thames Valley Police, has been charged with misconduct in public office after being accused of inappropriate relationships with “multiple women” A police constable has been charged with misconduct in public office over alleged inappropriate relationships with “multiple women”. Oliver Perry-Smith, who serves with Thames Valley Police, has been charged […] […]
Mistakes made around Internet Protocol (IP) addresses continue to pose the greatest risk of a “serious error” by law enforcement agencies, according to the latest report on the use of covert powers in the UK. The annual report by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, Sir Brian Leveson, says these errors can result in “significant harm” with […] […]
Clara Harriott may have made a very poor career decision, by signing off an IOPC outcome letter declining to direct an investigation into the former […]
A former Essex Police Inspector who allegedly sexually touched a colleague and sent inappropriate emails has been found guilty of gross misconduct. Following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), the hearing ruled Jonathan McLeod – who was based in Basildon – would have been dismissed without notice had he not resigned […] […]
2022 has begun with yet another ridiculous claim from the Metropolitan police that it’s “supporting women’s safety“. There’s been uproar from the public since the Met tweeted a video on 2 January of its Taskforce Officers swabbing people’s hands for evidence of drug usage on the streets of Shoreditch. Embarrassingly for the Met, just one […] […]
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