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Watchdog's ruling says chief constable should face hearing
Gloucester Citizen
|October 02, 2025
GLOUCESTERSHIRE police's Chief Constable Rod Hansen should face a gross misconduct hearing over allegations he failed to appropriately act on reports of a data breach, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has concluded.
It’s alleged Mr Hansen didn’t sufficiently act on information passed to him in October 2022 regarding a staff member suspected of carrying out an unauthorised search of police systems - and accessing third party personal data - in relation to a road traffic collision.
The collision took place in September 2022 but concerns over Mr Hansen’s response to the matter only came to light in 2024.
The IOPC subsequently received a conduct referral from Gloucestershire’s Office for the Police & Crime Commissioner (OPCC) on August 15 2024 and it launched an independent investigation into the allegations on August 19, 2024.
This story is from the October 02, 2025 edition of Gloucester Citizen.
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