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Evening all. Resigning before being dismissed to avoid sanction is a particularly odious police practice. High time it was stopped.
I thought that the law had changed and police officers can't resign prior to their hearing, if charged with gross misconduct (as opposed to 'vanilla' misconduct).
The above article has got things mixed up a bit - this is from the TVP press release:
The breaches were in connection with statements made by Mr Corbett in evidence to a Police Medical Appeals Board. He claimed he had injured his back during a road traffic collision in 2014 which limited his ability to ride a bicycle. He also claimed he was unable to board flights which were longer than 90 minutes.
So the gross misconduct is lying to a previous Police Medical Appeals Board, possibly IMO for compensation reasons or possibly to get some sort of medical restrictions on his posting.
A fine upstanding citizen, such a great role model for all young officers.
May he live long and prosper, and continue to enjoy the good life with the very generous pension we taxpayers provide for him.
Or perhaps there's a future for him as a pro cyclist... though he'll probably be a DNS on the days when the weather's bad.
The worst thing is he has had to delete his Strava account; years of PB's and routes lost, that's not worth a duvet day.
Who hasn't skived off in their life? But only an idiot would record it on strava or another social media portal. Sleep well criminals, the cops are as thick as you.
Surely this is out and out fraud, so why is there no mention of prosecution? A rather brief report but I'm sure we'll be reading lots more in the popular press with foot high headlines about skiving cyclist cop.
More detail here, including it was specifically Strava that caught him out.
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/on-euro-weekly-news/mallorca/1472454...
He is 52, presumably he will also lose his substantial pension (assuming he's served a few years) which is probably the worst part of this story for the guy.
Edit: Just done a little research, it's not a given that he will lose his pension.
Because he resigned rather than being dismissed, he'll keep his pension.
IIRC he won't be able to draw it until he is 55, unless he retired on ill-health.
Which in the circumstances is highly unlikely