Fewer than one in three complaints of sexual misconduct against police officers were investigated last year. Figures obtained by the Newsquest Media Group from the Independent Office for Police Conduct show more than 100 complaints of sexual assault, sexual harassment and other sexual conduct levied against officers. Of the 109 complaints received in 2020/21, just 31 were […] […]
Two Met officers who described the bodies of two sisters brutally murdered in a park in North London as “dead birds” will be kicked out of the police for gross misconduct, a hearing has ruled. Pc Jamie Lewis, 33, and former officer Deniz Jaffer, 47, shared crime scene photos of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, […] […]
A BOLTON detective has been warned that he could face jail after admitting multiple child sex offences and misconduct in a public office. Lee Cunliffe, 40, who lives in Bolton and worked in Salford, entered guilty pleas during a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court. The detective constable admitted one count of attempting to arrange the […] […]
After we caught a Lancashire police officer blowing smoke in a horse’s face, the officer was reported to the British Horse Society. The British Horse […]
To all our supporters, we are now in the next phase of our Judicial Review against Bedfordshire police in which the High Court of London […]
A POLICE officer is facing a gross misconduct disciplinary hearing after admitting accessing confidential data and sharing it with a family member. He has been placed before an accelerated misconduct hearing after accepting a criminal caution for unlawfully accessing Cleveland Police computers. PC Christopher Marrison photographed the information before sharing it. The force’s website says […] […]
Pete Wishart and the Good Law Project have joined forces against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), lodging a pre-action protocol on Friday. It comes after the MP for Perth and North Perthshire complained to the MSP Commissioner Cressida Dick over concerns about potential criminality, when an investigation by the Sunday Times and openDemocracy found a […] […]
Discrimination and corruption were among hundreds of allegations made about Warwickshire Police last year. The public made 680 complaints about Warwickshire Police in 2020/21, according to new Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) figures. These are the first complaints statistics to be published since moving to a new system of recording complaints, under new regulations […] […]
A Special Constable who broke Covid rules and later acted abusive towards his housemates has been dismissed for gross misconduct following two “deeply concerning” incidents. The Special Constable for Avon and Somerset Police was found to have breached police standards on two occasions. The man – whose identity has not been revealed by the force […] […]
A serving Metropolitan Police officer has pleaded not guilty to a number of child sex offences. Detective Constable Francois Olwage appeared at Winchester Crown Court to enter pleas to four charges, including grooming a 13-year-old girl to meet up with him for sex. Prosecutors say the alleged offences occurred between October 14 and 29 this […] […]
A Met officer is facing gross misconduct proceedings following an investigation by the police watchdog into force used on a teenage boy outside a secondary school in north London. The Independent Office for Police Conduct launched its probe on December 10 last year following a complaint from the boy and a referral from the Met […] […]
The Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner refused to investigate the former Chief Constable (Andy Rhodes) for perjury, so the IOPC insisted that he be investigated, […]
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