{"id":149239,"date":"2022-01-10T12:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=149239"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:49:36","slug":"police-officer-43-faces-the-sack-over-country-walk-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/police-officer-43-faces-the-sack-over-country-walk-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer, 43, faces the sack over country walk during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Police officer, 43, faces misconduct hearing and the sack after being caught on a country walk 20 miles from his home during lockdown while on sick leave<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PC Mark Lee, 43, travelled 20 miles during Tier 4 restrictions in December 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He visited beauty spot Cwm Idal in Wales with his partner and her autistic son\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PC Lee was also on sick leave at the time and was spotted by a fellow officer\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The PC was previously fined \u00a3600 for the breach, with \u00a3700 prosecution costs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He now faces a disciplinary hearing and <\/strong><strong>could lose his job after 12 years service<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A police officer is facing the sack for going on a mountain hike 20 miles from his home while on sick leave and in breach of Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lee, 43, travelled to Cwm Idwal in Snowdonia, north Wales, with his partner and her autistic child on December 29, 2020, when Wales was an Alert Tier 4 area.<\/p>\n<p>But he was spotted by a sergeant colleague at a petrol station on his day-trip jaunt.<\/p>\n<p>PC Lee, who had served as a police officer for 12 years, was previously fined \u00a3600 at Llandudo Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to being away from his home, which was then in Colwyn Bay, without a reasonable excuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The officer, who was also landed with \u00a3700 prosecution costs, is now facing a misconduct hearing for his day out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/01\/10\/11\/49034693-10386285-PC_Mark_Lee_pictured_arriving_at_Llandudno_Magistrates_Court_at_-a-11_1641814868117.jpg\" height=\"1372\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>PC Mark Lee, pictured, arriving at Llandudno Magistrates Court for a hearing in July last year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/01\/10\/12\/49034691-10386285-PC_Mark_Lee_43_pictured_leaving_court_after_his_sentencing_last_-a-15_1641816521843.jpg\" height=\"532\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>PC Mark Lee, 43, pictured leaving court after his sentencing last October, when he was fined \u00a3600 with \u00a3700 prosecution costs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/01\/10\/11\/52750971-10386285-image-a-13_1641814993310.jpg\" height=\"497\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>PC Lee traveled 20 miles with his partner and her son from their home in Colwyn Bay to Cwm Idal in December 2020, when Wales was in Tier 4 restrictions<\/p>\n<p>During his court case, PC Lee of Trefor, Porthmadog, claimed he was unaware of the restrictions that had come into force and had been on sick leave.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Helen Hall said: &#8216;There were plenty of other open spaces where he could have exercised. Ignorance of the law is no defence.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But Richard Orme, defending Lee, stated: &#8216;It beggars belief that we have a police officer who has served the locality and members of he public to the best of his ability with decency and candour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is to his credit that he&#8217;s someone who has pleaded guilty to breaching coronavirus regulations by walking in the wrong place. It&#8217;s a mightily brave guilty plea before this court today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s aware that locally and nationally officers have issued tickets for breaches.\u00a0 He readily accepts that he must abide by the regulations too.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>PC Lee is now set to face a misconduct hearing at North Wales Police headquarters in Colwyn Bay on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged he breached the &#8216;standards of professional behaviour relating to discreditable conduct which constitutes gross misconduct&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10386285\/Police-officer-43-faces-misconduct-hearing-country-walk-lockdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officer, 43, faces misconduct hearing and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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