Disgraced officer quits earlier than she is sacked after violent rampage
- Kia Pulford Stone was charged following two incidents in Wigan in March 2023
- The ex-Merseyside Police Constable resigned slightly than face being sacked
- She has been added to the ‘Barred List’ stopping future work in policing
A Merseyside police officer resigned earlier than she might be sacked, after she was convicted of assault by beating and prison injury.
Former Constable Kia Pulford Stone was charged after two separate incidents which happened in Wigan, Greater Manchester, on March 4 and March 16, 2023.
The second incident concerned Ms Pulford Stone, then a serving officer, damaging a Vauxhall Adam automobile belonging to the identical lady that she had attacked lower than two weeks earlier.
Ms Pulford Stone, from Wigan, pleaded responsible to each prices and was handled at Manchester Magistrates’ Court in October 2023.
Details from Ms Pulford Stone’s LinkedIn profile indicated that she had solely begun working as a full-time officer with Merseyside Police the identical month that the offences occurred.
Ms Pulford Stone resigned earlier than she might be sacked after being convicted of assault by beating and prison injury. The similar lady was focused throughout each incidents
Kia Pulford Stone, a former officer with Merseyside Police, had been charged with two separate incidents that occurred in Wigan in March 2023
An accelerated listening to held by Merseyside Police discovered that she would have been sacked had she remained a serving officer
Following the conclusion of the prison case, Merseyside Police’s Professional Standards Department held an accelerated misconduct listening to earlier this month.
The listening to was chaired by Chief Constable Serena Kennedy.
She concluded that Pulford Stone would have been sacked for gross misconduct had she nonetheless been a serving officer.
In a choice discover posted by the pressure, Chief Constable Kennedy wrote: ‘The proof on this case is incontrovertible and the previous officer entered a responsible plea and was convicted by a courtroom on the twenty sixth October 2023.
‘I additionally be aware that this was not a one-off event – the sufferer was subjected to an assault after which injury was brought about to her automobile. As a consequence, I’m happy that former officer Pulford Stone has breached the requirements {of professional} behaviour, specifically discreditable conduct.
‘The communities of Merseyside ought to fairly rightly have the ability to have belief and confidence that the officers and employees working for Merseyside Police not solely uphold the regulation but additionally abide by the regulation.
‘The former officer has fully disregarded the requirements anticipated each by the pressure and the communities of Merseyside by committing and being convicted of a prison offence.’
The resolution means Pulford Stone might be added to the College of Policing Barred List, prohibiting her from working in any policing position within the UK.
Detective Superintendent Cheryl Rhodes, from Merseyside’s Professional Standards Department, stated: ‘It is simply proper that the communities of Merseyside have belief and confidence in all our officers and employees that they are going to abide by the regulation in addition to upholding it.
‘Merseyside Police is dedicated to making sure that everybody meets the excessive expectations of the general public and once they do not we are going to take strong motion.
‘Our officers are the general public face of Merseyside Police and it’s important that our communities really feel assured that we’ll maintain officers and employees to account when required.
‘Merseyside Police rightly takes a zero-tolerance strategy to anybody who commits assault or causes prison injury. The unacceptable motion of people is not going to be allowed to break the nice title constructed up by the overwhelming majority of our officers and employees who do an exemplary job and work day in, day trip to make sure that all of our communities are protected.’
