Acting chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police suspended

Jim Colwell, the acting main constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, has been suspended pending an probe into allegations of breaching nonrecreational standards.

The Devon and Cornwall Police commissioner has made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which has confirmed it volition analyse the allegations.

Alison Hernandez said: "Sadly it has been my work to suspend A/CC Jim Colwell and notation this substance to the IOPC.

"Suspension is simply a neutral enactment to alteration an autarkic and thorough probe to instrumentality place. It has nary bearing connected immoderate denotation that the allegation volition beryllium upheld and should not beryllium seen arsenic such.

"A/CC Colwell has 7 days to marque representations to maine relating to his suspension.

"As required for immoderate suspension of a elder officer, I person this greeting informed the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Panel of my determination and afloat recognize that determination whitethorn beryllium concerns wrong the force, successful our communities and with our partners successful narration to this suspension.

"I stock those concerns and resolving enactment issues successful the unit remains my astir pressing priority."

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