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Kent police blotter april 141/12/2024 ![]() When the man again tried to stand up, the officer fired his Taser and hit the man in the back with two darts. ![]() The man tried to get up off the ground, so the officer kicked him in the ribs and told him to stay on the ground or he would use his Taser. The officer also climbed over the fence, caught up to the man and used a foot in the man’s chest to push him to the ground. He yelled at the man to stop, but the man kept running and hopped over a fence. When an officer arrived, he saw a man outside the store who fled on foot.Ī second officer joined the pursuit after he spotted the man running through a nearby apartment complex. Officers arrested the man for investigation of third-degree theft, obstructing an officer and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the police report.Ī store security officer called police to report a shoplifter. March 14 in the 20500 block of 108th Avenue Southeast. Now that those have concluded it will be for the Metropolitan and Kent police forces to organise disciplinary proceedings which will consider the evidence we have gathered and determine whether the allegations against the officers are proven or not.”įollowing the conclusion of these proceedings we will publish our reports.Officers ended up chasing a man across a field and over a fence before using a Taser on him after he allegedly took several items from a pharmacy at about 6 p.m. IOPC Regional Director Sal Naseem said: “We have been unable to publish our findings until now due to the risk of prejudicing criminal proceedings against Couzens. Our investigation was completed in March (2022). Kent Police will organise a misconduct meeting at which the officer will face allegations amounting to a breach of the police professional standards for duties and responsibilities. We found no evidence to suggest that Wayne Couzens was identified as a police officer and he was not spoken to. We began our enquiries following a conduct referral from Kent Police in May 2021 and concluded that a sergeant has a case to answer for misconduct for alleged failures in following all reasonable lines of enquiry before the case was closed. The vehicle was identified as belonging to Wayne Couzens. The IOPC also completed a separate investigation into Kent Police’s handling of a report alleging that a man driving a car indecently exposed himself to a pedestrian in Dover in June, 2015. We also found that another MPS officer had no case to answer, regarding their supervision of the indecent exposure enquiries. We concluded that the constable has a case to answer for gross misconduct and it will be for the MPS to organise the misconduct hearing, at which a panel led by an independent and legally qualified chair will decide whether the allegations are proven. We considered whether local and national policies were followed in relation to the gathering of any available CCTV evidence, checks on a vehicle used by the alleged offender, and if evidential material was correctly dealt with. The IOPC investigation, completed in January 2022, looked at whether inquiries were adequately carried out and supervised between the officer’s visit to the restaurant on 3 March and on 10 March when a different team took over. Former MPS officer Wayne Couzens pleaded guilty to both offences on Monday 13 February 2023. ![]() We began an investigation after a conduct referral from the MPS on 10 March 2021 concerning the investigation into reports that a man had exposed himself to female staff on two occasions in February 2021 at a drive-through fast food restaurant in south London. The constable is also accused of breaching the standards relating to honesty and integrity over parts of an account provided to IOPC investigators in respect of the alleged failings. The MPS police constable will face allegations they breached police standards of professional behaviour for duties and responsibilities for alleged failings over the way inquiries were progressed. A Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) constable will face a gross misconduct hearing and a Kent Police sergeant will face a misconduct meeting after Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigations into the handling of separate reports of indecent exposure.
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