The Suffolk Hyde Affair - Doc 162 Community Safety in Suffolk

Blue Watch
Normanshurst Fire station
Lowestoft

SubO A Wigglesworth
Chairman
Lowestoft Branch
The Fire brigades Union

12.05.99

Dear SubO Wigglesworth,

Ref. Discipline Case Ff M Hyde (Conduct Prejudicial to Discipline)

Thank you for your letter dated 10 May 1999.

With reference to the above and in response to your questions:

I was on day duty on the 2nd and 3rd February 1999 and on night duty on the 4th and 5th February 1999.

I did not witness any act that might be construed to be prejudicial to discipline committed by Ff M Hyde.
SubO J. Tiffen, Watch Commander Blue watch, Fire station, Normanshurst, informed me, during the night duty of the 4th February 1999, that Ff M Hyde had been ordered to remove his "Rank Bars" which Ff M Hyde had done, but after consulting a Fire Brigade’s Union Official (Chris Hayward) Ff Hyde had reinstated his "Rank Bars"

Yours faithfully
Ian D. Pettit
Firefighter, Suffolk Fire Service.