A POLICE officer has been dismissed because he didn’t declare that he had been overpaid.
The panel of a West Mercia Police misconduct hearing found that Sergeant Pete Nightingale had inadvertently submitted inaccurate overtime claims and did not declare the overpayment when he received his payslip.
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“The panel also accepted that by acting dishonestly, PS Nightingale did not act with integrity,” a report of the hearing said.
It was decided that he should be dismissed without notice and barred from policing.
A second allegation that PS Nightingale had dishonestly submitted claims for on-call honorariums for on-call sessions he didn’t perform was not upheld by the panel.
