A police officer faces a misconduct hearing after allegedly trying to get his daughter off the hook when she was caught driving while holding her phone.

The man, known only as ‘PC B’, is said to have pressured volunteer police officers to drop the case after his daughter was pulled over at around 1am on October 28 last year.

It is alleged that after special constables Jones and Fowler stopped the woman, she handed them a phone.

On the other end was PC B, who said his daughter had only been driving for a couple of months and could lose her licence.

He repeatedly told the special officers they should leave the matter to him and that he would give his daughter “a **********” when she returned home.

PC B now faces a three-day gross misconduct hearing at the Avon and Somerset Police headquarters in Portishead.

If the case against PC B is proven, his actions will amount to gross misconduct and he could face being sacked.

We will be reporting on the hearing as it happens in our live blog below.