Two police officers who conducted the “humiliating” strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl committed gross misconduct, a panel has found. Misconduct has been proven in case of a third police officer, after the girl, known as Child Q, was searched at her school in Hackney, east London, in December 2020. Child Q, who was wrongly suspected...
A former police sergeant has been dismissed for gross misconduct. Devon and Cornwall Police said this week a panel found Tim Perrin had breached standards of professional behaviour relating to his reply to a notice of intended prosecution after a speeding offence in his private vehicle. After a two-day hearing, a gross misconduct panel found...
Getty Images The IOPC found there were gross misconducts cases to answer over the treatment of the woman Two serving Metropolitan Police officers and a former officer will face a gross misconduct hearing after a 90-year-old woman with dementia was “red-dotted” with a Taser, handcuffed and put in a spit hood. The woman was targeted...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has temporarily stepped down until a sexual misconduct probe against him is concluded. Karim Khan will take leave until the end of the external investigation, which began late last year, and his deputy prosecutors will run the office in his absence, the ICC said in a...
Ben Woolvin BBC South West home affairs correspondent Erin Black BBC News, South West BBC The IOPC said Mr Colwell had no case to answer over the alleged use a work mobile phone to exchange personal messages The police watchdog has concluded there is no evidence of gross misconduct by the former acting chief constable...
Coleen Rooney’s lawyers did not commit misconduct over her costs in the so-called Wagatha Christie row with Rebekah Vardy, a High Court judge has ruled. Mrs Vardy sued Mrs Rooney for libel in 2022 but lost. The pair are now locked in a further battle over how much Mrs Vardy should pay in legal costs....