Former PC Richard Fieldhouse outcome summary

Misconduct hearing outcome 

Officer concerned: Former Police Constable Richard Fieldhouse

Dates of hearing: 18 March 2026

Summary

This hearing has been held on 18 March 2026 at Empress State Building, London.

The allegations facing FPC Fieldhouse were set out in the Regulation 30 Notice served upon him under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020. These were:

It is alleged that the following conduct has breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour, and the matter has been referred to a misconduct hearing:

(1) PC RICHARD FIELDHOUSE, it is alleged that in or around February 2019, when applying for a role as a Police Constable at the Metropolitan Police Service, you deliberately omitted to disclose within your application and/or vetting form a previous finding against you of Gross Misconduct by the Hampshire Constabulary in 2005 and you failed to correct this position after you attested as an officer of the Metropolitan Police Service within a reasonable time period.

(2) It is alleged that this behaviour is dishonest and constitutes a breach of the following Standards of Professional Behaviour: a) Honesty and integrity b) Discreditable conduct

(3) It is further alleged that this conduct amounts to gross misconduct.

The Panel concluded that FPC Fieldhouse had deliberately omitted to disclose the disciplinary finding against him in order to secure employment with the MPS and that he tried to mislead the investigating officer by producing a falsified document and that FPC Fieldhouse's conduct would be considered dishonest according to the standards of ordinary decent people.

Decision

The Panel determined that if FPC Fieldhouse had been a serving officer the imposition of a final written warning would not reflect or be sufficient to address the seriousness of FPC Fieldhouse's conduct.

The Panel therefore concluded that the only appropriate sanction in this case, that would fulfil the threefold purpose of misconduct proceedings, is that had FPC Fieldhouse been a serving officer, he would have been dismissed without notice. He will also be placed on the College of Policing Barred List.