Leicestershire

A police officer who was signed off sick with gout on full pay was caught playing football 19 times. PC Jay Gorania committed an “extreme deception”, a misconduct panel has found. He was “trying to get his own back” against the force after claiming to have been held back in his career due to his […] […]

A Leicestershire Police officer was investigated for inappropriate use of social media after sharing “provocative videos” while wearing their uniform on TikTok in 2020. The officer’s account also included a link to an Amazon ‘wish list’- a means by which people solicit gifts from online followers. Meanwhile, a second officer was also investigated in 2020 […] […]

A police officer accused of having sex with a colleague at work is to face a misconduct panel later this month, the force has said. Also, it has been alleged that the officer, a detective constable, engaged in “inappropriate sexual text conversations” with the woman while they were both on duty in February last year. […] […]

Just five people were convicted of a form of domestic abuse called ‘controlling and coercive’ behaviour in Leicestershire last year despite hundreds of incidents being reported to police. Coercive control became a specific criminal offence in 2015 but the number of convictions compared with the number of reported incidents is staggeringly low across the UK. […] […]

A police officer hit a man in the face and then lied to her colleagues about it, an internal misconduct hearing has ruled. The constable committed the act of violence when she was off duty in December 2019. She resigned from Leicestershire Police before the force was able to bring the matter to a misconduct […] […]

The force has released limited details of the private hearing – but some questions remain unanswered A police officer has been allowed to keep his […]