A SPECIAL police constable with the Avon and Somerset force slashed her partner's car tyres to stop them leaving home, it is alleged.

SPC X faces a misconduct hearing on Monday (March 8), accused o breaching the Standards of Professional Behaviour.

The hearing will be told that SPC X committing the act deliberately and in anger on June 21 last year.

It will also be claimed that she asked a colleague if their body worn camera was off "in order to ascertain whether the conversation

with him would be recorded or not".

The hearing will be told she then on July 18 said words to the effect: "I slashed his tyre" and "You won’t tell anyone will you?"

It will be alleged that SPC X was encouraging her colleague not to report the disclosure she had just made to him.

And she is accused of saying in interview in October that she could not remember whether she had actually slashed the tyre.

Such actions would amount to gross misconduct if proven.