A constable in the Serious Crash Unit was isolated and made to think she was “mental” after complaining about the bullying behaviour of her boss, conduct the IPCA deemed misleading. She says the police are failing to properly deal with their bullying culture. Ben Strang reports.
The police’s legal response to a bullying investigation omitted or reframed information in order to suit the police’s position, according to a report by the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
The IPCA report also found the information included in the legal response presented one person’s view as that of an entire unit, and provided a person who was the subject of a personal grievance investigation with information about an event which could have helped them to frame their response.
Delwyn Davies, who was a constable in the Serious Crash Unit, quit the police and did not go ahead with the mediation process after receiving the lawyer’s response to her personal grievance.
Davies’ lawyer, Peter Brosnahan, said he now believed the agreement both parties came to at the end of the personal grievance process was obtained by police by fraud.
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