A police officer has been sacked after being found to have lied when she claimed a deer had caused her to crash on the A11.
PC Holly Moore had told colleagues that she swerved to avoid the animal while driving a marked police vehicle between Watton to Attleborough on July 29 last year.
She appeared before a misconduct hearing to answer claims that she breached the expected standards of professional behaviour.
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It heard while on route she had turned left onto the A11 slip road near Attleborough while travelling too fast, causing her to crash.
The incident resulted in substantial damage to the police vehicle.
The disciplinary panel, chaired by legally qualified chair Peter Nicholls, alongside independent member Rebecca Stephens and T/Superintendent Phil Gray, concluded her conduct had amounted to gross misconduct.
They found that by lying about the accident she had breached the expected standards of a police officer with regard to honesty, integrity and discreditable conduct.
She has been dismissed from the force without notice.
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It comes amid a spate of similar cases after Norfolk's chief constable Paul Sanford pledged to crack down on officer misconduct.
He said he had taken action to sack PC Moore following the finding of “dishonesty related to driving”.
“Since I’ve been chief constable 12 people have been dismissed from my force for poor misconduct. I will act when people who do not deserve to wear a police uniform are in our service and I will move them out,” he added.
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Mr Sanford admitted there was a “clear similarity” with the case of PC Karl Warren who also faced a misconduct hearing last month after he drove into the back of a female motorist on the A146 and failed to stop or report the crash.
He was cleared of gross misconduct after an independent misconduct panel accepted expert medical evidence that he was suffering a form of epileptic seizure at the time that left him unaware of his surroundings and with no memory of the accident.
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