Pc faces hearing over police computer

A SOUTH Yorkshire Police officer could be dismissed from the force after she was accused of using the force’s computer system with “no legitimate policing purpose”.

Police constable Charlotte Kaill will be brought before a misconduct hearing at South Yorkshire Police’s Professional Standards Department in Sheffield today.

The force said she is alleged to have “undertaken checks on the South Yorkshire Police computer systems between August 2019 and February 2021” with “no legitimate policing purpose”.

The force has also said that if the charge is proven, it will amount to gross misconduct and she could be dismissed from the force.

At the force’s last misconduct hearing, former detective David Walker was cleared of failing to act on information supplied to him about alleged child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.

The misconduct panel said he “took entirely appropriate action” and was “hardworking, diligent and professional in his approach”.

Mr Walker was one of 47 officers and former officers who were investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in the wake of the 2014 Jay Report, which described the extent of child sexual exploitation by gangs of men in the South Yorkshire town.

The IOPC has yet to publish its final report into the investigation it called Operation Linden, which is the second largest operation carried out by the watchdog after its Hillsborough inquiry.

In November the IOPC said that, of the 47, eight were found to have a case to answer for misconduct and six had a case to answer for gross misconduct.

Of these, five have faced sanctions from management action up to a final written warning.