RAP FOR COP AFTER £900K COMPO FLOP
CONSTABLE FACES NEW MISCONDUCT CLAIMS Employment tribunal slams credibility of detective’s evidence during case
Norman Silvester A detective who failed in a £900,000 compensation claim against his bosses has been criticised in a 135-page tribunal report.
The judg ment fol lows a five-month action against Police Scotland by Constable Andrew Reid.
Reid claimed he was targeted by senior figures for complaining about the actions of the former Counter Corruption Unit.
But the report by an employment tribunal, led by Judge Robert Gall, attacks the credibility of Reid’s evidence during the case.
The judgment said: “The tribunal had some difficulty in this regard.”
Reid’s evidence was described by the panel as contradictory.
The serving of f icer, who represented himself during the hearing, is facing internal misconduct allegations.
He also represented PC Amanda Daly, who failed in an identical £900,000 compensation claim at the same tribunal. She is also facing misconduct claims.
The judgment on both added: “Mr Reid had convinced himself that a version of events represented the facts whereas the facts might be slightly different.
“His credibility and reliabil ity was, however, s i g n i f ic a nt l y dented by the contradictor y evidence.
“It suggested at the very least that Mr Reid saw things in a particular way without there necessari ly being substance behind it.
“The tribunal did not conclude that he lied during the evidence but rather came to the view that he had convinced himself of the truth in his version of events.”
Reid had been probed by the CCU over allegations he was friendly with a criminal, had sold a story to a newspaper and unlawfully accessed data on the police computer.
The tribunal threw out Reid’s claims that he and Daly had been victimised because they were whistleblowers.
Reid and another officer were cleared of illegally using the police computer in 2010 after a CCU probe.
He claims he and Daly were hounded by the CCU and thei r then boss DCI Jim Dillett a fter complaining about the ir probe. But t he tribunal judgment said the force were right to probe the allegations against Reid and Daly.
It added: “The allegations made against Mr Reid and Ms Daly had a genuine basis.”
The tribunal had heard evidence over five months from Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone, former