Inspector Ruff - Reduced back to PC in 1894

[Danny980]

I noticed with interest that an 1887 MPS medal issued to an Inspector R.RUFF recently sold for over £300 online.

This prompted me to carry out some online research. All that I could find was that Inspector Ruff was reduced back to PC in his last year of service.
Does anyone know the full story behind this unusual demotion?

[bigjarofwasps]

8 hours ago, Danny980 said:

I noticed with interest that an 1887 MPS medal issued to an Inspector R.RUFF recently sold for over £300 online.

This prompted me to carry out some online research. All that I could find was that Inspector Ruff was reduced back to PC in his last year of service.
Does anyone know the full story behind this unusual demotion?

Saw this one as well. Likewise would very much like to learn the story. Assume it must have been something serious but not so serious as to merit dismissal? 

Found this - 
 

The plaintiff be ex-Inspector Ruff, of the Y police, and the defendant the Chief Commissioner of Police. For some dereliction of duty the plaintiff was last ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1895
Newspaper: Islington Gazette
County: London, England

[Danny980]

Found this..House of Commons questions..

INSPECTOR RUFF, METROPOLITAN POLICE.

HC Deb 09 April 1895 vol 32 c12911291

§MR. T. LOUGH (Islington, W.) 

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department—(1) whether his attention has been called to the case of Inspector Ruff, of the Metropolitan Police Force, in Islington, who was reduced in rank about a year since, some six months before he was entitled to retire on a full pension (2) whether Mr. Ruff had since retired and been awarded a pension on the scale of his salary during the few months that had passed since he was reduced in rank, instead of on the average pay that he had received during the last three years of his service in the force; (3) whether the right hon. Gentleman has taken the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown on the legality of this action; and (4) whether he will give orders that the question of Mr. Ruffs pension be reconsidered in accordance with what is understood to be the usual practice?

§MR. ASQUITH 

The answer to the first three paragraphs is in the affirmative. I am in communication with the Law Officers on the subject, and hope to decide the matter at an early date.