A TOP police officer who wore fake Falklands War medals has been found to have committed gross misconduct.
The Sun revealed how Northants Chief Constable Nick Adderley was also under investigation for allegedly lying about his Royal Navy service.
The panel, chaired by Callum Cowx, who served in the Royal Navy, the Army and the police, found all allegations against Mr Adderley proven.
He added they found “his audacity to be quite staggering”, and that he had lied over many years with “arrogant temerity”.
The misconduct hearing was told how Adderley, “built military naval legend that wasn’t true”.
The suspended Northants Chief Constable previously implied he had served in the Falklands War.
But the shamed police officer was just 15-years-old when the conflict broke out in 1982.
The misconduct hearing also hear heard how Mr Adderley wore a South Atlantic Medal, awarded to British military personnel and civilians for service in the Falklands conflict, that was deemed “110%” fake by a Ministry of Defence medal expert.
In his string of lies, Adderley claimed he served in the Royal Navy for 10 years – when he had served for only two.
And, this is understood to have included his service with the Sea Cadets from the age of 10.
He also claimed on his CV that he had attended the prestigious Britannia Royal Naval College for four years, despite his application being rejected.
Adderley then alleged to have seen active service during his naval career, had been a military negotiator in Haiti despite never visiting the country, and that he had been a “commander or a lieutenant”, even though he only achieved the rank of able seaman.
