{"id":165761,"date":"2025-06-07T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165761\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:39:14","slug":"bristol-cop-allegedly-worked-as-football-ref-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165761\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol cop allegedly worked as football ref without permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Avon &amp; Somerset Police officer faces a misconduct hearing<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/male-rape3.jpg\" alt=\"The Portishead HQ of Avon and Somerset Police\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Portishead HQ of Avon and Somerset Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A trainee Bristol police officer has been accused of having two other jobs without permission, including as a football referee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship Louis Cosway also allegedly worked in a licensed premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He faces a misconduct hearing at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon &amp; Somerset Police<\/a> headquarters in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/portishead\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Portishead<\/a> on Monday, June 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/media.aspolice.net\/uploads\/production\/20250605164840\/Accelerated-Hearing-Publicity-Notice-PCDA-Cosway.pdf\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">publicity notice on the force website<\/a> said PCDA Cosway was accused of breaching the standards of professional behaviour in terms of honesty and integrity; and orders and instructions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It said: \u201cThe alleged facts are: Following the refusal of a Business Interest application, the officer carried out paid work as a referee for a Football Association and worked in a licensed premises on numerous occasions without permission to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cIt is contended that (if proven) the allegations amount to gross misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Avon &amp; Somerset Police officer faces a misconduct hearingThe Portishead HQ of Avon and Somerset Police A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,3374,393,4884,285,11945,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-165761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-employment","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-portishead","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114643780466544026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165761","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=165761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}