By Andrew Young
A police constable has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police Service without notice, following a misconduct hearing.
PC Rae Layzell, attached from the East Area Command Unit, faced allegations that her conduct amounted to a breach of the Met’s standards of professional behaviour with respect to honesty and integrity, discreditable conduct and duties and responsibilities.
Her picture and age were withheld from the press at the discretion of the police because the level of accountability is deemed lower than that for serious crimes. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan police told theeyeofmedia.com ” it is at our discretion whose picture and personal details we release to the press. This was a misconduct case, not a criminal one, so we don’t consider it appropriate to disclose her image or personal details.
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Police also declined to tell us how long Ms Layzell had been working with the police, referring to such information as ”personal details”.
DISHONEST
It was alleged that on 28 August 2016 PC Layzell had exhausted her annual leave entitlement but dishonesty and inappropriately applied to take carer’s leave by pretending to take a relative to a medical appointment. In reality, she took a pre-booked flight at 17:45hrs on 30 September to go on holiday.
PC Layzell was further dishonest when she claimed that a flight she was booked on from abroad on 8 October had been delayed and then cancelled. Following an investigation, it came to light that there were no cancellations or delays from the airport that day and that PC Layzell had instead missed the flight.
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The hearing also heard that PC Layzell failed to attend work on the 9 and 10th of October.
PC Layzell was absent from the two-day hearing, which began on Monday, 29 January.
The chair of the hearing after considering all of the evidence found one case of gross misconduct and one case of misconduct proven, and that PC Layzell had breached the standards of professional behaviour. She leaves he job in shame.
Police officers are meant to show the highest level of integrity in their job because of the important role and high position they hold. Instead, a number of officers continue to discredit the important position they hold by being deceptive and dishonest.
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