High Court Rules Staffordshire Police Acted 'Unlawfully' in Chief Constable Mess - Stoke-on-Trent Live

High Court rules Staffordshire Police acted 'unlawfully' in chief constable mess - Stoke-on-Trent Live

Blundering Ben Adams should not have advertised for a temporary chief constable

R (Chief Police Officers’ Staff Association) v Police, Fire and Rescue and Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire — [2025] WLR(D) 583

POLICE — Police and Crime Commissioner — Power to appoint, suspend and remove chief constable — Commissioner suspending chief constable — Whether commissioner having express or implied power to appoint temporary chief constable — Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c 13), Sch 1, para 14

Staffordshire commissioner’s decision to recruit temporary chief constable was ‘unlawful’ – judge

The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire’s decision to recruit a temporary chief constable after its previous one was suspended from duty was “unlawful”, a High Court judge has ruled.