Twenty-six Avon & Somerset Police officers are still serving despite committing misconduct or gross misconduct, the Chief Constable has revealed. Two kept their jobs after findings of gross misconduct for sexual harassment and one for racial discrimination.
During a monthly grilling by Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Mark Shelford, the force’s top officer Sarah Crew said she was awaiting results from the national police database to check if any others had slipped through the net. Chief Constable Crew told the PCC’s performance and accountability board on Thursday, March 9: “I fully acknowledge the concerns that the public have around standards of professional behaviour – I share these concerns.
“Within Avon & Somerset we’ve uplifted the resources within our professional standards department and we are checking all our officers and staff against the police national database to look at any intelligence or information that we might not have been previously aware of. That has been a concern for the public.
