Philippa Baskwill, who worked on child protection, found to have weighed down laptop keys with phoneA detective working on child protection, who was found to have weighed down the keys on her laptop to give the impression she was working at home, has been sacked without notice for gross misconduct after a disciplinary hearing.Suspicions were raised when keystroke data – the record of the number of times the keys had been struck on the keyboard – revealed DC Philippa Baskwill had pressed the keys on her laptop nearly 3 million times in a single month – compared with the 80,000 to 200,000 average of her colleagues, the hearing was told. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/10/somerset-detective-sacked-pretending-to-work-from-home
Author : Jamie Grierson
Publish date : 2025-04-10 18:27:00
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Somerset detective sacked for pretending to work from home
