{"id":85275,"date":"2026-02-20T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85275"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:33:45","slug":"police-officer-who-ran-pizza-company-while-on-sick-leave-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/police-officer-who-ran-pizza-company-while-on-sick-leave-sacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer who ran pizza company while on sick leave sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WGECt.img?w=534&amp;h=314&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Mr Skelt had been on sick leave for long periods throughout much of 2025 and into January this year when social media posts show he had been working at his pizza business (Joe Giddens\/PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct after working and promoting his mobile pizza service while on long term sick leave. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/police-officer-who-ran-pizza-company-while-on-sick-leave-sacked\/ar-AA1WGuXV?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=c980b8ddcef341dcb07c150755733f0e&amp;ei=62\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct after working and promoting his mobile pizza service while on long term sick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pizza-hut.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85276,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85275\/revisions\/85276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}