A CHIEF officer threatened the police watchdog with judicial review after it tried to force two officers through gross misconduct proceedings.<\/p>\n
Surrey Chief Constable Nick Ephgrave revealed that he warned the former IPCC that they would face a robust legal challenge if they continued in an attempt to take action against a detective inspector and detective sergeant.<\/p>\n
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The case surrounded an incident in which a domestic abuse suspect committed a serious assault after he had been bailed.<\/p>\n
Mr Ephgrave said: \u201cIt was very serious, nearly a murder. Because of that, it\u2019s a DSI [death or serious injury incident] so we have to inform the IPCC. They come in and do an investigation and they come to me and say you need to put these two blokes on a gross misconduct board because of their decision-making, so I [\u2026] went through all their rationale and thought, you know what, I\u2019d have done exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote back to the IPCC and they said I don\u2019t agree, I\u2019m not doing it. Then the IPCC took a position where they said we\u2019re directing gross misconduct [\u2026]I had a little chat to my deputy and we decided we\u2019d write back and say well we\u2019re not going to accept the direction and if you\u2019re going to really push it, we\u2019ll take it to judicial review.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their actions caused the watchdog to back down, he told the Police Federation National Detectives\u2019 Forum Conference in Manchester.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cOur business – your business – is about making difficult decisions, sometimes life or death decisions, with an imperfect set of information in a changing environment so sooner or later something is going to go wrong isn\u2019t it? It doesn\u2019t mean to say you\u2019ve done anything wrong,\u201d PoliceOracle.Com<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to push this message with my people that as long as you record your rationale and as long as it\u2019s not bonkers, and it never is in my view, if the worst were to happen, sometimes that\u2019s policing, sometimes that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A CHIEF officer threatened the police watchdog with judicial review after it tried to force two officers through gross misconduct proceedings. Surrey Chief Constable Nick Ephgrave revealed that he warned\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4813,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}