The sudden retirement of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary’s Chief Constable Scott Chilton, triggered by an investigation into undisclosed workplace relationships, shines a damning […]
A police constable has kept his job despite being found guilty of gross misconduct. A disciplinary hearing heard Southampton-based PC Edward Greevy attended a domestic violence incident in May 2020 where a woman claimed she had been hit by her brother. But when Greevy filed the paperwork he fabricated the answers. He was given a […] […]
HAMPSHIRE’S new deputy police and crime commissioner is to be paid £64,500 – equivalent to the annual salaries of almost three new police constables. Terry Norton, a Conservative councillor from Portsmouth, has been named by Donna Jones as her preferred right-hand-man after former deputy Luke Stubbs resigned from the position in February. Mr Stubbs stood […] […]
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 […] […]
A man who was lives on the Isle of Wight was arrested on suspicion of drug possession after Hampshire police discovered Novelty ‘lollies’ purchased from […]
Police investigating the suspected murder of a man in a flat have referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. The man, aged in his 30s, was found by officers in George Street, Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, on Tuesday afternoon. Hampshire Constabulary said officers had previously been at the home on the […] […]
The head of the Police Federation was dramatically suspended yesterday after being accused of sexual misconduct by a female officer. Federation chairman John Apter, who represents 130,000 rank-and-file officers in England and Wales, is facing a probe by the police watchdog after being accused of sexual impropriety. The high-profile officer had his warrant card taken […] […]
A Hampshire Constabulary detective constable has been convicted of forging a witness statement during a murder investigation. Detective Constable Robert Ferrow completed and signed the statement of a witness during the investigation into the murder of Lucy-Anne Rushton in Andover, Hampshire in June 2019. He told investigators he felt “pressured to complete the statement due […] […]
A murder inquiry detective has told a court he failed to follow correct procedure by letting a witness sign blank pages of their statement but denied forging any of the signatures. Det Con Robert Ferrow, 50, took the statement on the day Lucy-Anne Rushton was killed at her home in Andover, Hampshire, in 2019. He […] […]
Sergeant used N-word and homophobic slur in messages to colleague with whom he was having affair A former police sergeant who used racist and homophobic language in messages to a fellow officer with whom he was having an affair has been found guilty of gross misconduct. The male sergeant used the N-word and a homophobic […] […]
Det Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired detective inspector Tim Ireson and former PC Craig […]
Update: 5 of the 6 officers have now been sacked. The commanding officer of a “toxic” specialist police unit accepts that his “failings of management” […]
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