Overview

• A misconduct panel in Peterlee ruled that former DC Niall Thubron committed gross misconduct and said he would have been dismissed had he not resigned in May.
• Thubron was placed on the College of Policing barred list and retains the right to appeal.
• Evidence showed he used a single-key hold 38 times across 12 days between December 3 and January 12, generating 45 hours of bogus activity out of 85 logged hours.
• On one occasion his laptop recorded more than 16,000 presses of the letter 'i' within 90 minutes, creating the appearance of continuous typing.
• Seconded to the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit and allowed two remote days per week, he left policing tasks incomplete as monitoring software triggered the internal probe.