{"id":139689,"date":"2025-05-28T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139689\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:18:11","slug":"two-south-wales-police-officers-cleared-after-probe-into-misconduct-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139689\/","title":{"rendered":"Two South Wales Police officers cleared after probe into &#8216;misconduct&#8217; allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The matter had initially been referred to a police watchdog, but was ultimately investigated by an independent police force<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_101.jpg\" alt=\"South Wales Police Headquarters in Bridgend\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>South Wales Police Headquarters in Bridgend(Image: South Wales Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two South Wales Police officers have been found to have no case to answer after a complaint about them was investigated by an external police force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The force has confirmed that a complaint against the two serving <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/south-wales-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">South Wales Police<\/a> officers has been investigated and that the probe concluded last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The complaint was initially referred to the Independent Office For Police Conduct by South Wales Police. However, the IOPC \u201creturned\u201d the matter to the south Wales force for it to be investigated locally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">South Wales Police said that, to make sure the allegations, the nature of which have not been disclosed, were investigated independently, they were looked into by an external force.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_101.jpg\" alt=\"South Wales Police flag at South Wales Police HQ, Bridgend\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The allegations were investigated by an outside police force to ensure it was independent, said South Wales Police(Image: South Wales Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">These \u201cindependent investigators\u201d concluded their investigation in April, 2025. Don\u2019t miss a court report by signing up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=e9917f64-b3c4-4bba-bce6-4dce03cdb705&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">to our crime newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">As part of their investigation, they found that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">South Wales Police said that, from the information available to them, these investigators concluded that the officers had &#8220;no case to answer in respect of misconduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">As a result, the criminal and misconduct investigations against the officers have now been concluded and both of the officers will not be facing any further action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748467091_765_0_101.jpg\" alt=\"South Wales Police emblem at the South Wales Police HQ, Bridgend \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Both officers face no further action(Image: South Wales Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A statement from South Wales Police read: \u201cA complaint against two serving South Wales Police officers was initially referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThis was returned to the force for local investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cTo ensure the matter received independent attention, the allegations were investigated by an outside force and that investigation was concluded in April, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThose independent investigators concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations and based on the information available to them, determined that the officers had no case to answer in respect of misconduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cTherefore, the criminal and misconduct investigations have now concluded and neither officer will face any further action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The matter had initially been referred to a police watchdog, but was ultimately investigated by an independent police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,14884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-139689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-south-wales-police","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114587546850386072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}