Jack Sullivan

Introduction

Jack Sullivan is a former police constable with the Metropolitan Police Service who was dismissed without notice after a misconduct panel found he crashed a marked police car into a parked Mercedes in south London, left the scene, and then recorded false accounts suggesting someone else had hit the police vehicle. The panel found he deliberately failed to tell the truth, deliberately entered inaccurate information on the force’s command-and-control log, and continued misleading fellow officers — breaches of honesty and integrity that the panel concluded could not be remedied by anything short of dismissal. He is to be placed on the police barred list.

Background Information

Sullivan served as a constable in the Metropolitan Police. On the evening of March 15, 2025, at around 9.36pm, he was behind the wheel of a marked police Toyota in Carshalton when he reversed it into a parked Mercedes. Instead of reporting the collision and obtaining the owner’s details, he drove away from the scene. The events that followed — discovered only because a colleague went back to the road — turned a damage incident into a dishonesty case that ended his policing career.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Misconduct findings, not criminal convictions. The findings below come from a Metropolitan Police misconduct panel chaired by Commander Colin Wingrove. One allegation — that Sullivan returned to the scene before reporting the collision — was not proven. The panel’s findings are a regulatory adjudication; the sources report no criminal prosecution arising from the crash.

Later on the night of the collision, Sullivan claimed the damage had happened while the police car was parked. In a CAD entry he said officers had returned to the vehicle and noticed “slight damage” to the rear bumper, adding that it appeared another car had “potentially hit it,” and he recorded that there had been no damage at the beginning of the shift and that it had “definitely happened whilst dealing at another incident.” The panel found those entries were false — and that Sullivan knew they were false. He also knowingly gave false accounts to fellow officers PC Charlie Preston and PS James Stead.

Suspicion was raised after PC Preston went back to the road and discovered a Mercedes with fresh damage to its front nearside bumper and wheel arch, with a piece of reflector similar to one fitted to a police vehicle at the scene. PS Stead attended and found the piece of red plastic matched the broken reflector on Sullivan’s police car. A senior forensic collision investigator subsequently analysed the police vehicle’s data and concluded that Sullivan’s car had collided with the Mercedes while reversing. The panel found proven breaches of Honesty and Integrity, Duties and Responsibilities and Discreditable Conduct, amounting to gross misconduct, and noted Sullivan had had “multiple opportunities to admit the truth” but failed to take them. The single allegation not proven was that he had returned to the scene before reporting the collision — the panel found he had already made reports before he subsequently returned.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Commander Wingrove, who chaired the panel, concluded that a final written warning would not be sufficient. The panel said it had “very little confidence” that Sullivan’s conduct would not be repeated, citing his lack of true remorse, reflection and insight, and concluded that dismissal without notice was the only appropriate outcome given the nature and severity of the breaches. Sullivan was dismissed without notice and is to be placed on the barred list, which prevents him from returning to policing. The outcome was published in September 2026 and reported by the police-misconduct tracker Misconduct999.

Current Status

Sullivan is a former police officer, dismissed without notice roughly eighteen months after the Carshalton collision. The barred-list placement means he cannot be re-employed by any UK police force. No appeal against the outcome, and no separate criminal proceedings, were reported in the sources available.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A routine reversing collision became a career-ending gross-misconduct case because of what the panel found Sullivan did afterwards: leave the scene, falsify a force log, and mislead colleagues. The dishonesty findings — proven on vehicle forensic data and his own CAD entries — follow him into any future employment requiring integrity vetting, and the barred-list entry permanently excludes him from policing in the UK.

Sources

• Misconduct999, “Met Police Officer Who SMASHED Patrol Car Into Parked Mercedes Then Claimed Someone ELSE Had Hit It Is Sacked For Gross Misconduct,” 4 September 2026. source