By Tony O’Riley-
A North Yorkshire Police officer has been dismissed for “gross misconduct,” after cheating in an academic police assessment.
Former police constable Raza Ali was dismissed without notice following a misconduct hearing. The allegation against PC Ali was that while he was undertaking a City and Guilds student officer and learning assessment portfolio coursework, “notes have been swapped with another officer.”
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“This action caused identical sections within the portfolio being produced and submitted as personal evidence,” a statement from the force said.
The panel concluded that this was a breach of the standard of professional behaviour ‘Honesty and Integrity’ and “constituted gross misconduct.”
It explained: “The breach involved the copying of another officer’s work in order to complete some requirements within a student officer portfolio, a mandatory requirement for any student police officer. The panel found that what the officer was doing was not permitted.”
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It is also alleged that, when asked if notes had been swapped with another officer, PC Ali “was unable to offer an explanation, thereby making a false, misleading or inaccurate oral statement.”
The panel concluded that this was also a breach of the standard of professional behaviour ‘Honesty and Integrity’ and “constituted gross misconduct,” adding: “The breach involved providing a dishonest account of his actions when asked to explain the similarities in his work to that of another.”
Only last week, a Bedfordshire Police detective has been sacked after he failed “to conduct thorough enquiries” into domestic abuse cases.
DC Mohammed Hussain was accused of making “inappropriate comments to victims” of domestic abuse and breached “standards of behaviour in respect of fairness, impartiality, respect and courtesy”.
He was dismissed on Thursday, December 3, following a gross misconduct hearing which found he had failed in his duty to properly investigate alleged breaches of a non-molestation order.
Detective Chief Superintendent Dee Perkins, head of crime and public protection at the Beds Police, said: “Mohammed Hussain’s actions are totally against our policies and values. He tried to reflect his own misguided beliefs onto the people he should have been protecting.
“As a result, his position with the force was entirely untenable, and I hope this case reassures victims that we will not tolerate such behaviour”.
There were 2,362 cases assessed as misconduct or gross misconduct in
the year ending March 2019, of which proceedings were brought
in 1,373 cases.
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