After tensions between the rank - and - file police union at the NYPD and the board that
hears police misconduct complaints spiked under its former chair Richard Emery, his successor — mayoral counsel Maya Wiley — is stepping in as both antidote and lightening rod.
Not exact matches
A policewoman involved in the Plebgate row between officers and former chief whip Andrew Mitchell boasted that she could bring down the Government, the Tory MP claimed after
police rejected his plea for full disclosure of gross
misconduct hearings.
Mitchell said full disclosure of Metropolitan
Police gross
misconduct hearings will show the woman texted a friend two days after the altercation saying: «I can topple the Tory Government».
A further seven Metropolitan
police officers are facing disciplinary action over the affair, including four who will be subject to gross
misconduct hearings in March over claims that they leaked information to the media.
Why is eyewitness testimony so unreliable that even without
police misconduct it requires special jury instructions or a pretrial
hearing?
However, in the
police force and where an officer faces possible dismissal there is a statutory right to be represented at the
misconduct hearing.
The court reached its decision after considering newly - discovered evidence of
police misconduct obtained through the use of digital forensic technology not available at the time of trial and holding several days of evidentiary
hearings.
Our lawyers will advise and support you at every stage from the initial complaint, through any appeal to the Independent
Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), and on to
misconduct hearings and potential legal challenges in court.