A former Thames Valley Police officer has been sentenced to prison after having sex with a teenage victim of crime. Jonathan Fallon, aged 23, who was based at Milton Keynes police station, was convicted of corruption after he formed an inappropriate relationship with a victim of crime. Former Thames Valley Police officer Fallon pleaded guilty […]
Devon and Cornwall police are paying three chief constable salaries after it suspended its leader and his first replacement over misconduct allegations Taxpayers are funding a police force to employ three chief constables at a cost of more than £60,000 a month after the original and his replacement were both suspended. The huge costs are […]
The head of Thames Valley police has been suspended with immediate effect amid allegations of gross misconduct. Chief constable Jason Hogg is being investigated by the Independent Office of Police Conduct, the police watchdog said on Thursday, after concerns were raised about the failure to investigate the conduct of a colleague. The IOPC’s director of operations, Steve […]
A Metropolitan Police officer who used the term “dirty Zionists” on social media to refer to Jewish people has been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct. Pc Ruby Begum admitted during a police misconduct hearing that she used discriminatory language against Jewish people and non-Muslims while serving as a special constable. The 29-year-old also admitted […]
The senior Met Police officer who drew up the force’s anti-drugs strategy has been sacked for refusing to provide a urine sample for cannabis testing. The actions of Cdr Julian Bennett, who joined the Met in 1976, were found to have amounted to gross misconduct. He was cleared by a three-person disciplinary panel of smoking […]
At least 60 Metropolitan Police officers could be sacked every month for the next two years as senior figures warned of more difficult and “abhorrent” cases coming to light. Scotland Yard is overhauling its culture and standards to root out rogue officers who have “corrupted” the force’s integrity as public support wanes after a slew […]
A policeman who lied about why he was speeding in a police vehicle has been sacked from Thames Valley Police. PC Stewart Argyle was transporting a suspect in the vehicle last August when a speed camera caught him doing 62mph in a 50mph zone on the M4 near Reading. He filled in an official form called […]
A PC who repeatedly struck ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson on the night he was killed by her colleague has been found guilty of gross misconduct. Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith hit the former Aston Villa striker six times with her baton as he lay on the ground in 2016. She was acquitted of actual bodily harm at trial […]