Avon and Somerset officer who failed to investigate assaults sacked
PC Wilson will also be barred from policing
A “dismissive and uncaring” police officer who failed to investigate two assaults in Bristol and then lied to bosses to cover her tracks has been sacked without notice for gross misconduct, a tribunal panel ruled.
PC Rose Wilson, 30, discriminated against a female victim of male violence and a black man who was attacked in his own home in front of his children.
She refused to gather evidence and tried to close their cases without making any inquiries, it was decided..
It is also claimed she filed “false and misleading” reports on the Avon & Somerset Police database and did not upload her body-worn video despite orders from senior officers to do so.
The panel ruled she knew they would reveal both victims wanted to press charges when she had said they didn’t.
PC Wilson will also be barred from policing.
The first incident in Horfield in July 2022 was a neighbourly altercation where a woman who had been assaulted by a man next door became frustrated that the officer was not listening to her.
Announcing the police misconduct panel’s ruling on Friday, September 27, after a four-day hearing at force headquarters in Portishead, Legally Qualified Chair Jenny Tallentire said: “The officer adopted a dismissive tone towards the woman.
“Within a couple of minutes, the officer had rolled her eyes towards her colleague.
“The panel finds PC Wilson’s interruptions were almost always to undermine what the woman said or to criticise her, such as telling her she was rambling.
“She was not treated how a victim of crime should be treated.
“It was false and misleading to write an email to her supervising officer that the officer had given her the chance to tell them what happened.
“The officer adopted a partisan approach to the incident from the outset.
“It was false and misleading to say there were no further lines of inquiry.
“There were multiple and obvious lines of inquiry which the officer did not follow.
“These false and misleading entries were made deliberately because it was the officer’s intention to shut down this investigation and she misled her supervisors.
“The officer decided that she didn’t want to undertake any investigative work in relation to this incident.”