Unnamed officer

NOTICE OF OUTCOME OF PRIVATE HEARING

I have determined that an outcome notice in relation to the below private misconduct
hearing will be published

Legally Qualified Chair: Mr Deni Mathews
Dates of Hearing: 27 & 28 July 2021
Officer: Not Named

The panel in this matter concluded that on 1st June 2018 the officer attended the scene of a death in Cornwall. £105.00 in cash was seized from the scene of the death.

Subsequently the officer breached Standards of Professional Behaviour concerning honesty and integrity by treating the cash seized as his own. The officer failed to properly secure a potential exhibit seized from a venue at which a fatality had occurred.

The cash was removed from it's approved place of storage, a fellow officer was misled as to the whereabouts of the cash, and there was a considerable delay before an equivalent sum of cash was returned to a fellow officer.

The decision of the officer to treat the seized cash as his own represented gross misconduct requiring immediate dismissal without notice.