A South Yorkshire Police officer, Detective Constable 1649 Alex Kirby, faces a 4 day Misconduct Hearing, this week and next, at the force’s Professional Standards Department HQ in Chapeltown, near Sheffield.
The hearing opens on Wednesday 12th July, 2023 at 10am and a Panel convened for the purpose will, according to a statement on the SYP website, hear allegations that the officer deliberately provided victims of crime with misleading information, failed to provide updates, was rude and threatening in a phone conversation, failed to conduct reasonable lines of enquiry in investigations and in relation to safeguarding of children, and deliberately provided false information to supervisors.
This is a breach of the police service’s Standards of Professional Behaviour in respect of Honesty and Integrity, Authority Respect and Courtesy, Duties & Responsibilities and Discreditable Conduct.
The matters set out above are breaches of the Standards so serious as to justify dismissal and therefore constitute gross misconduct.
SYP has not named the legally qualified chair who will lead the Panel.
Since January, 2022, the force has held 14 misconduct hearings, all but one of them in public (Source: Misconduct999).
DC Kirby’s LinkedIn profile records that he joined SYP in April, 2000, after serving for 10 years with the Army. Latterly, as a Lance Corporal is Osnabruck, Germany.
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Page last updated: Monday 10th July, 2023 at 13h25
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