Martin Evans

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Martin Evans

One of Essex Police’s most senior officers has been sacked after using his position to prey on junior colleagues. Chief Superintendent Tom Simons, who once led his force’s response to domestic abuse, was dismissed with immediate effect after being found guilty of gross misconduct. A disciplinary hearing was told how the married father had sexual contact with one colleague while on duty and touched another inappropriately.

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Martin Evans

One of Essex Police's most senior officers has been sacked after using his position to prey on junior colleagues. Chief Superintendent Tom Simons, who once led his force's response to domestic abuse, was dismissed with immediate effect after being found guilty of gross misconduct. A disciplinary hearing was told how the married father had sexual contact with one colleague while on duty and touched another inappropriately.

3 days ago | msn.com | Martin Evans

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3 days ago | yahoo.com | Martin Evans

The caiman has been handed over to experts at the RSPCA until a decision can be made on its future - Essex PolicePolice carrying out a drugs raid at a house in Essex discovered a four-foot-long caiman in the property. The reptile, native to Central and South America, was found by officers during a search of an address in Aveley, near Grays. After the animal was captured and secured, it was handed over the RSPCA, which will care for it until a decision can be made on its future.

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Martin Evans

Rapists will no longer be able to identify as women following a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court. Forces are now expected to begin recording criminals' birth sex rather than preferred gender in official crime statistics following the ruling, which stated that trans women are not the same as biological women under equality laws. It will end a situation where some police forces record rapists as being women, even though the legal definition of the crime requires a penis.