Surrey

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 Surrey Police officer previously commended 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 […] […]

TWO cops ignored call-outs to a hospital and a burglary — to have sex in their police car while on duty. Sgt Molly Edwards and lover PC Richard Paton’s affair was exposed after suspicious bosses bugged the vehicle. A disciplinary panel was told that Paton, 39, was heard moaning “aww, let’s just get naked”, after […] […]

Former sergeant Stephen Kirkpatrick, 36, was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Friday (July 30). Kirkpatrick was charged following an allegation that he had an inappropriate relationship with a victim of domestic abuse in a case he was investigating. Surrey Police referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct in January 2020 after […] […]

A Surrey Police officer who failed to maintain an appropriate “professional boundary” with a vulnerable woman has been given a final written warning following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). In May 2020, Police Constable Jason Cooling and another officer had attended an incident where a woman was experiencing mental health […] […]

English police have refused a request by the family of Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly accused of the Guildford pub bombings, for a fresh investigation. The Guildford Four, which included Mr Conlon, Paul Hill, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson, were falsely accused of two pub bombings in Guildford in October 1974 that killed four British […] […]

An ex-police sergeant who raped a woman while on a break from work has been jailed. Derek Seekings, 66, was sentenced to 11 years in […]

Derek Seekings, 66, went round to the home of the woman while he was on duty   He pushed the woman onto the bed in an […]

The sergeant’s actions breached the standards of professional behaviour, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said A Surrey Police sergeant authorised a strip search […]