Police Officer Kept Equipment at Home and Lied About Warrant Card

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Police Officer Kept Equipment at Home and Lied About Warrant Card
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A Nottinghamshire Police special constable was found to have kept his equipment at home and repeatedly lied about the loss of his warrant card during a misconduct hearing.

A Nottinghamshire Police officer kept his equipment at home and repeatedly lied about the loss of his warrant card when he was suspended, a misconduct hearing has been told. Special constable Rachid Sghiar, who joined the force in May 2022, kept his on-duty equipment at home for almost a month before it was seized by another officer.

On January 8, he was assaulted by a member of the public while out on an incident, requiring treatment at Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham for an eye injury. The police constable who was deployed with him to the same incident took him to QMC and then to Beeston Police Station, which is where they had started their shift. He then drove himself home in his own vehicle, but failed to return his equipment to the station. This included a PAVA spray, similar to pepper spray, which is classed as a firearm under the Firearms Act, a misconduct hearing at the Nottinghamshire Police Headquarters held on Wednesday, December 18, was told. During a welfare check on February 2, the attending constable saw that Mr Sghiar had his police kit within an insecure, unlocked wardrobe in his bedroom at his multi-occupancy address. The kit was provided to the constable, who seized all of it and returned it to Nottinghamshire Police. The former special constable had not attended police premises during that period and didn't attempt to tell a supervisor or colleague that he had taken his equipment home and was keeping it on the premises, the hearing was told. This wasn't the only misconduct incident concerning the former special constable, who resigned a day before his hearing, which he didn't wish to attend. During a conversation on May 15, he was contacted by an officer to attend the headquarters. He said that he didn't have his warrant card, but that he had a paper replacement which he said he couldn't find. The force doesn't issue paper replacements, howeve

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