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Sept
North Yorkshire Police officer accused of failing to disclose crash
A North Yorkshire Police traffic constable will face a misconduct hearing after allegedly failing to disclose that he had been involved in a collision while on duty.
In a notice of the hearing, the force alleges TC 1288 Nicholas Ham breached its professional standards of honesty and integrity, and discreditable conduct.
TC Ham faces three separate accusations. The notice says:
1. On 31 December, 2022, following a road traffic collision in which you were the driver and responsible, you knew or ought to have known that your vehicle had, or might have, sustained damage. Following the collision, the vehicle displayed a warning light alerting you to damage and/or low tyre pressure. You knew, or ought to have known, that the vehicle was, or might have been, in a dangerous condition. Notwithstanding that, you:
2. Continued to drive the vehicle on an emergency blue light response, in poor road conditions, despite the possible consequences for you and others due to the extent of the damage being unknown;
3. Failed to report the damage as a collision or disclose to the control room that you had collided with the central reservation; instead seeking to report a standard puncture and arrange a call out repair. In doing so, you were not being open and honest.
The public hearing will be held at North Yorkshire Police’s Alverton Court headquarters in Northallerton next Monday (September 8).
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