2022/25477 - Misconduct Hearing Outcomes
REQUEST
Can you advise how long it takes for you to make your misconduct hearing outcomes public?
RESPONSE
Can you advise how long it takes for you to make your misconduct hearing outcomes public?
Regulation 43 of the Police Conduct Regulations 2020:
Notification of outcome
- —(1) The person conducting or chairing the misconduct proceedings must, before the end of a period of 5 working days beginning with the first working day after the completion of the misconduct hearing or misconduct meeting, submit a report to the appropriate authority or, where functions have been delegated under regulation 26(1), to the originating authority setting out—
(a) the finding of the person or persons conducting the misconduct proceedings;
(b) the reasons for that finding;
(c) any disciplinary action imposed;
(d) any direction that the matter be dealt with under the reflective practice review process.
(2) The appropriate authority or, as the case may be, the originating authority, must, as soon as practicable after receiving the report under paragraph (1), notify the officer concerned of the outcome by sending the officer a copy of—
(a) the report submitted under paragraph (1), and
(b) where there was a finding of misconduct or gross misconduct, a notice of the right of appeal in accordance with paragraph (3).
The time scale for publication is as soon as possible after the officer has received the outcome report from the Chair of the Hearing. The information remains on the web site for at least a period of 28 calendar days.