Police officers violent to women will be dismissed under new guidance
Police officers who break the law can be prosecuted. Misconduct hearings can also follow either criminal convictions or less serious breaches of police professional standards.
The new guidance is for these hearings and designed to ensure a consistent approach is taken - in order to prevent abusive officers from remaining in their jobs. "In many cases, the guidance wasn't clear enough that legally-qualified chairs should be considering the impact an incident may have on wider public confidence, as well as the specific incident itself.
"If someone's behaviour is so bad that it would damage the public's trust in their police service, they should be sacked. There is no place for them in policing, and neither chief constables nor their colleagues want them."For misconduct hearings, the officer has to be found to have acted unprofessionally on the "balance of probabilities". In other words, they are more likely to be guilty than not.
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