While there was no misconduct by Moore and Huxley, they failed to deal with Ms Mullaley as the victim of an assault. She was unco-operative and aggressive which contributed to the failure. They failed to establish who assaulted her. Their failures later impacted on the actions of police who attended subsequently. Those officers did not have an opportunity to hear witness accounts or attempt to or speak to Ms Mullaley and instead dealt with the Mullaleys only in terms of their behaviour towards police.