A senior North Yorkshire Police officer is to face a gross misconduct hearing over allegations that he failed to disclose a conflict of interest when managing a complaint.
Superintendent 1264 Andrew Berriman is alleged to have breached the force’s standards of professional behaviours and will be the subject of the four-day hearing in March.
North Yorkshire Police said Mr Berriman faces an allegation that, while a superintendent with the force, he failed to declare a conflict of interest when agreeing to manage a complaint submitted by a detective chief inspector.
A force spokesperson said Mr Berriman is also alleged to have told the detective he “had no allegiances with anyone in North Yorkshire Police” when he agreed to manage the grievance. A former deputy chief constable was named in the complaint, the force said.
The police spokesperson said Mr Berriman’s alleged actions, if proven, would have been “dishonest and did not reflect the association with a (former) deputy chief constable who had been named in the grievance”.
They said it is alleged that the conduct, if proved, amounts to gross misconduct which could result in dismissal.
The hearing will be chaired by assistant chief officer Sarah Jackson at North Yorkshire Police’s Northallerton headquarters from March 3 to 6.
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