'Ex-cop abused and assaulted in the office after blowing the whistle on 'toxic' GMP gun licence unit'
A former police officer was ostracised by colleagues, verbally abused, assaulted and then unfairly sacked after he complained that standards of work in a 'toxic' gun licence vetting unit were putting the public at risk, an employment tribunal has found.
After informing Mr Millet of his concerns on October 4, 2014, Mr Lumb said he later penned 'trigger notes'. He alleged colleagues whose work he was complaining about must have read these notes, as he found them 'poking out' of his briefcase when he returned to his desk. "I explained that my role had changed, and it was virtually impossible for me to do any research now because I was constantly being given other researchers' files to check and discovering issues with most of them. I was also discovering an increasing amount of files with things missing when they came to me for checks.
But the employment tribunal said Mr Parkin's evidence was 'unconvincing' and agreed with Mr Lumb that he had been assaulted and that Ms Collins had laughed at him. The whistleblower, a former constable with Derbyshire Police, alleged another researcher spent time 'running his own business' on his mobile phone at work, and had allegedly told colleagues 'slow it down boys, there is some mileage in it yet'. The panel made no findings on this allegation.
The panel in the employment tribunal found in Mr Lumb's favour that he suffered a number of 'detriments', including Debbie Collins laughing about the kicking incident, that Lee Parkin assaulted him, that Jerry Pointon had muttered obscenities at him, that he was ignored by other researchers and was isolated by his peers, and that his contract had been terminated with a refusal to give reasons for it.
Mr Lumb's solicitor, David Ward, of Blacks Solicitors, told the M.E.N: "I'm really pleased for Tim. I've been helping him through this for the last four years and we got the right result in the end.
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