{"id":172445,"date":"2025-06-10T08:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172445\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:10:16","slug":"police-sergeant-allegedly-took-unauthorised-engineering-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172445\/","title":{"rendered":"Police sergeant allegedly took unauthorised engineering job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt Christopher Tearle faces a misconduct hearing<a class=\"AuthorLink_author-link__rg5qj\" data-tmdatatrack=\"author\" data-testid=\"byline-author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/authors\/adam-postans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Adam Postans<\/strong><\/a> Local democracy reporter and <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_25dbf8\">Adam Postans, Local Democracy Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>05:00, 10 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Avon-And-Somerset-Police-Hq.jpg\" alt=\"The HQ of Avon And Somerset Police and Avon Fire and Rescue in Portishead. 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Permission for use by all newswire partners\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A police sergeant allegedly took up paid work as an engineer, while suspended from duty, despite Avon &amp; Somerset Police denying his request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sgt Christopher Tearle, based in Radstock, faces a misconduct hearing at force 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 Friday, June 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A publicity notice on the police&#8217;s website said he was accused of breaching the standards of professional behaviour, specifically of honesty and integrity; orders and instructions; and discreditable conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It said: &#8220;The alleged facts are: PS Christopher Tearle undertook paid work for a Business Interest (engineering role) despite knowing the request had been declined and while suspended from duty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The notice said that if the allegations were proven, they amounted to gross misconduct.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/vu6y7aad\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Click here to join our WhatsApp groupLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to join our WhatsApp group<\/a><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/privacy-notice\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Privacy NoticeLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Notice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sgt Christopher Tearle faces a misconduct hearingAdam Postans Local democracy reporter and Adam Postans, Local Democracy Reporter 05:00,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,3374,393,4884,11945,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-172445","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-portishead","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114658058662033669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172445","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=172445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}