The Suffolk Hyde Affair - Doc 99 Suffolk Fire service Discipline case

SUFFOLK FIRE SERVICE

FIRE SERVICE (DISCIPLINE) REGULATIONS, 1985

CHARGE SHEET

Part 1
Full name of accused: Michael John Hyde

Rank, number and station: Firefighter, No 566, Station 16, Normanshurst

Age, rate of pay/retaining fee and date of appointment: Age: 44

Pay: £1,717 per month Date joined: 1 October 1974

Under the Code of Offences against Discipline contained in the Schedule of the Fire Services (Discipline) regulations 1985, you are charged as follows:

Under paragraph 14 with

(i) Title of alleged offence: Conduct prejudicial to discipline

(ii) Particulars of alleged offence including time, date and place:

In that you failed to carry out instructions issued on separate occasions by temporary Assistant divisional Officer Saward and Sub Officer Tiffen to revert in rank from temporary Leading Firefighter, to Firefighter, which actions are, or are likely to be prejudicial to the discipline of the brigade.

(iii) Name and addresses of witnesses in support of charge:

T/ADO Saward – Normanshurst
Sub Officer J Tiffen – Normanshurst
ADO Campion – Normanshurst
ADO E Smith – Normanshurst

You are ordered, within 7 days after service to this Notice to you, to complete Part II and return it to the Investigating Officer, stating whether you admit or deny the charge(s)

Date 12th April 1999


Name and signature of Investigating Officer……………… K Seager


Signature of member charged……………………………………………