Rod Hansen is due to face a public gross misconduct hearing in Cheltenham on 16 July, with proceedings scheduled to run on weekdays until 24 July. He denies any wrongdoing.
Park Campus in Cheltenham
The hearing will take place at the University of Gloucestershire’s Park Campus in Cheltenham. It follows the completion of an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which finished in August 2025.
The IOPC concluded that Hansen had a case to answer for gross misconduct. That finding keeps the focus on how he handled information passed to him in October 2022 about a staff member suspected of carrying out an unauthorised search of police systems and accessing third party personal data after a road traffic collision.
Gloucestershire Constabulary and
Hansen was suspended in October 2024 over allegations linked to a data breach. The suspension was later lifted so he could take up a redeployment role with the National Police Chiefs' Council, before he was suspended again in May 2025 after receiving a second misconduct notice.
That second notice concerned allegations that he improperly involved himself in the recruitment of a member of staff. In March 2026, the IOPC dropped that accusation after determining he had no case to answer.
Rod Hansen of Gloucestershire Constabulary
The hearing now sets out the unresolved part of the case: whether Hansen’s actions over the data breach amounted to gross misconduct. The allegation that he gave a false or misleading statement during the investigation will sit alongside the question of how he responded to the 2022 warning, and the panel’s decision will turn on that record.
