Chris Noble, a former chief constable, is found guilty of gross misconduct following a police misconduct hearing. The panel concludes that he breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour. Reporting from multiple outlets says the decision is made at a misconduct panel sitting at a conference centre in Staffordshire. The BBC reports that Noble is disbarred from the police service as a result of the finding. Other reporting characterises the outcome as including a determination that he would have faced dismissal had he not already resigned before the conclusion of the process, though the core findings described across sources focus on the gross misconduct verdict and the breaches of professional standards. The papers also describe the hearing as reaching the conclusion that Noble’s conduct fell within gross misconduct, leading to removal from police service. The accounts do not describe further details of the conduct in the provided excerpts, but they are consistent on the finding, the location/structure of the panel hearing, and the resulting police service disbarment.