Leicestershire’s police and crime commissioner pays out £56,000 in compensation after disbanding his ethics committee
Leicestershire’s police and crime commissioner (PCC) paid out £56,000 in compensation after members of his ethics committee claimed they had been dismissed unfairly.
Conservative PCC Rupert Matthews decided to disband the seven-strong ethics, integrity and complaints committee and replace them with a new ethics and transparency panel.
The members of the group then filed a claim for unfair dismissal and Mr Matthews paid each of them £8,000 in a settlement that did not include an admission of liability. His Labour predecessor, Lord Willy Bach, criticised the dismissal as ‘outrageous’, claiming Mr Matthews sacked them because “he didn’t like their questions and criticism”.