Detective sergeant quit before cocaine misconduct hearing

Summarised from 4 outlets · Updated 3 Nov, 12:13 · Archive

A Cumbria Police detective sergeant resigned six days before a misconduct hearing ruled he would have been sacked for taking cocaine.

Gary Story resigned from Cumbria Police on 20 October, six days before a misconduct hearing that found his actions amounted to gross misconduct and that he would have been sacked.

Story tested positive for cocaine during random testing by the force's Anti-Corruption Unit on 27 August. Laboratory results found 940 nanograms of benzoylecgonine, a cocaine metabolite, per millilitre of urine. This was more than six times the force's positive-test threshold of 150 nanograms.

At the accelerated misconduct hearing on 26 October, Assistant Chief Officer Sarah Jackson found that Story 'would have known how much cocaine he had consumed, and when, and could have reasonably foreseen that he was about to parade for duty when unfit to work'. She noted that as a sergeant, he held 'a position of responsibility where there is an expectation of acting as a role model'. Story did not attend the hearing but accepted the findings and admitted gross misconduct.

How it is being reported

• Detective sergeant who took cocaine quit days before damning misconduct rulingA Cumbria Police detective sergeant who took cocaine resigned just days before a misconduct hearing ruled he would have been sacked.Whitehaven News · 3 Nov, 12:00
• Detective sergeant who took cocaine quit days before damning misconduct rulingA Cumbria Police detective sergeant who took cocaine resigned just days before a misconduct hearing ruled he would have been sacked.News & Star · 3 Nov, 12:00
• Detective sergeant who took cocaine quit days before damning misconduct rulingA Cumbria Police detective sergeant who took cocaine resigned just days before a misconduct hearing ruled he would have been sacked.NW Evening Mail · 3 Nov, 12:00
• Detective sergeant who took cocaine quit days before damning misconduct rulingA Cumbria Police detective sergeant who took cocaine resigned just days before a misconduct hearing ruled he would have been sacked.Westmorland Gazette · 3 Nov, 12:00

In this story: Gary Story · Cumbria Police · Sarah Jackson

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