In Mr T Lumb v The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and others a former police officer was ostracised by colleagues, verbally abused, assaulted and then unfairly sacked after he complained that standards of work in a ‘toxic’ gun licence vetting unit were putting the public at risk, an employment tribunal has found.
Tim Lumb, 48, was subjected to what he describes as a ‘horrendous’ ordeal after he made allegations about working practices inside GMP’s Firearms Licensing Unit, where he worked as a civilian researcher.
Mr Lumb made a whistleblowing disclosure to his boss on October 4, 2017, alleging colleagues in the unit were putting the public at risk by failing to research phone, business, GP and internal police records during a review of gun licences. After ‘inadequacies’ were uncovered, an internal review of 10,000 paper gun licences issued by Greater Manchester Police was initiated in 2015.
Mr Lumb told an employment tribunal held in Manchester that he became so concerned about working practices in the unit – based at GMP’s Nexus House in Ashton-under-Lyne – that he started a diary of his concerns and eventually made whistleblowing allegations to his boss, Alex Millet, a retired superintendent who had returned to head up the department.
After informing Mr Millet of his concerns on October 4, 2014, Mr Lumb said he later penned ‘trigger notes’. He alleged colleagues whose work he was complaining about must have read these notes, as he found them ‘poking out’...
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