Unnamed Officer

NOTICE OF OUTCOME OF PRIVATE MISCONDUCT HEARING

Legally Qualified Chair: Mr Derek Marshall
Dates of Hearing: 9 – 11 & 20 May 2022
Officer: Not Named

Panel findings

An officer within Devon and Cornwall Police faced a police misconduct disciplinary hearing between 9-11 May 2022 for conduct alleged to have breached the standards of professional behaviour, namely:
Honesty and Integrity, Authority, Respect and Courtesy,
Confidentiality, and Discreditable Conduct.
Between January 2019 and April 2020 the officer embarked on a course of conduct whereby they accessed and misused police information for non-policing purposes and contacted members of the public by various means using a false
identity, with said information, for non-policing purposes. 

Outcome

Following the 3-day hearing on 20 May 2022 the officer was dismissed without notice. The Legally Qualified Chair of the Misconduct Hearing Panel directed that the hearing should take place in private and that there should be no public identification having regard to the present state of the officer’s mental health, about which the Panel had received extensive oral and written evidence from
a consultant psychiatrist.