Kevin Moore
Introduction
Kevin Moore was a police constable serving with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), the specialist armed police force that protects civil nuclear sites across the United Kingdom. He lost that career before it properly began: in January 2026, a CNC misconduct panel found that, while still a student officer on the force’s Initial Foundation Programme, Moore had subjected a fellow trainee officer — referred to in proceedings only as PC X — to a series of unwarranted and sexualised comments, and that his conduct amounted to gross misconduct. Moore had resigned before the case was heard; the panel ruled that, had he still been serving, dismissal would have been the only appropriate sanction. His case formed part of a wider reckoning at the small force: between January and June 2026, five CNC officers faced misconduct hearings, and all five were found to have committed gross misconduct.
Background Information
Moore joined the CNC as a student officer on its Initial Foundation Programme, the initial training course through which new constables qualify. He was placed on course IFP 103, which began in August 2024, and was formally attested as a constable at a ceremony on 23 August 2024. It was that first week of training where the misconduct panel found his conduct toward PC X, a fellow student officer on the same course, began. He was removed from the training programme in September 2024, returned to a later course, IFP 104, in March 2025, and was formally suspended in April 2025 pending a misconduct hearing.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
The panel found that during the first week of the course, in August 2024, Moore made a series of unwarranted and sexualised comments to PC X. Early in the week, he offered to take her home for the weekend — an offer he made a point of framing around the fact that two other colleagues who lived near her were explicitly excluded from it. Over lunch, he told her: “This is like a date and I don’t even date my wife.”
The conduct did not confine itself to casual moments during training. At Moore’s own attestation ceremony on 23 August 2024, when PC X mentioned noises coming from a neighbouring hotel room, Moore made groaning noises mimicking a woman reaching orgasm and said to her: “I bet you had a glass to the wall listening.” He then asked which hotel room was hers and told her: “I was sure I seen someone naked.”
On another occasion, when PC X raised her apprehension about upcoming self-defence training, Moore looked her up and down in a sexualised manner and said: “I would let you pin me down.” He then said: “I said maybe she likes being choked,” while continuing to stare at her.
Moore was removed from the training programme in September 2024, but the panel found his misconduct did not stop there. After he returned to a later course, IFP 104, in March 2025, he told colleagues that he had been suspended for seven months for making sexually inappropriate comments to a female colleague, made derogatory comments about PC X to those colleagues, and repeatedly stared at her. The panel treated this conduct as a continuation of the original misconduct rather than a fresh start.
Taken together, the panel found the comments were unwarranted and sexualised, that they were directed at a junior colleague at the very start of her policing career, and that Moore’s conduct after his removal — discussing the suspension, disparaging PC X, and staring at her repeatedly — showed the behaviour had not ended when he was taken off the first course.
Public Reaction and Consequences
Moore was formally suspended in April 2025 pending the misconduct hearing. On 10 June 2025, he resigned from the CNC. He declined to take part in the investigation or to attend the hearing and was not represented, so the case proceeded in his absence on 28 January 2026. The panel — chaired by Assistant Chief Constable Michael Vance, sitting with independent members Seán McHugh and Susannah Dengate — found the allegations proved and amounting to gross misconduct, and ruled that the only available sanction was that he would have been dismissed had he still been serving. The outcome notice was published on gov.uk, making the findings part of the force’s public record. The case also registered in coverage of the CNC more broadly: analysis by Misconduct999 found that every one of the five officers hauled before nuclear police misconduct hearings between January and June 2026 was dismissed or found to have deserved the sack.
Current Status
Moore is no longer a serving officer. He resigned on 10 June 2025 while suspended, and the hearing on 28 January 2026 confirmed in his absence that, had he still been serving, he would have been dismissed for gross misconduct. The finding stands on the public record through the CNC’s published outcome notice, issued under the force’s published complaints and misconduct procedures. Moore took no part in the proceedings and did not contest the panel’s findings through attendance or representation, having declined to engage with the investigation from the outset. His case sits within a 2026 run of CNC hearings in which all five officers who faced a panel were found to have committed gross misconduct.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The gross misconduct finding ended Moore’s policing career in all but name. He left the CNC by resignation while suspended rather than through dismissal, but the panel’s ruling that dismissal was the only available sanction means he exited the service carrying a formal finding of gross misconduct. Because the conduct was found to have occurred during initial training and continued after his return to a later course, the career it ended was one measured in months, not years. The published outcome notice permanently attaches the panel’s findings to his name in the public record.