Officer dismissed from Force following public misconduct hearing

    A police officer has been dismissed from Thames Valley Police for breaching standards of professional behaviour.

    PC Giles Manning, based in Milton Keynes local policing area, was dismissed without notice on Tuesday following a public misconduct hearing.

    The hearing, which began on Monday, took place in front of a panel led by legally qualified chairman Michael Salter at Thames Valley Police’s headquarters South, in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

    PC Manning breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour as set out in Regulation 3 and Schedule 2 to the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2012 in respect of ‘Honesty and Integrity’, ‘Authority, Respect and Courtesy’ and ‘Orders and Instructions’.

    The allegations are in connection with an incident on 6 June 2017, when PC Manning performed a static vehicle block, despite never having been trained or authorised to do so.

    PC Manning was informed later the same day that with immediate effect and until further notice his authority to drive police vehicles had been withdrawn.

    On 17 June 2017 while on duty he took keys for a Vivaro van, which was a fully marked and liveried police vehicle, and elected to drive it, despite having an authorised driver as a passenger. He attended an immediate response call at 7:07am and a further immediate response call at 7:19am.
    PC Manning ignored the instruction of his supervisor not to drive a police vehicle.

    Deputy Chief Constable John Campbell said: “PC Manning disobeyed instructions not to drive a police vehicle and failed to treat his colleague with respect. He breached the high standards the public rightly expect our officers to have and there is no place in Thames Valley Police for those who fail to adhere to the instructions they are given and do not treat others with respect.”

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