Plebgate Officer Referred To Police Watchdog An officer accused of giving misleading evidence to MPs over the Plebgate row has been referred to the police watchdog by his force. It comes after Sergeant Chris Jones, of West Midlands Police, told MPs he did not believe he had misled Parliament when he last appeared before the Home Affairs Select Committee on October 23 alongside Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton and Inspector Ken MacKaill. Mr Jones did not tell the committee that he had faced 13 complaints in the past, two of which resulted in management advice being given. They involved one claim involving use of force when he pushed someone in the back while off-duty, and another about performance of duties when he submitted the wrong CCTV video as an exhibit. Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton giving evidence earlier He told the committee he had misunderstood a question about whether any of the officers had faced disciplinary action in the past, but insisted he did not believe he had misled MPs. It was not my intention to mislead the committee, and if I have misled the committee because I have misunderstood the question, then for that I apologise. He and Mr Hinton were hauled back before the committee earlier to be questioned over "misleading" evidence given during the last hearing. Along with Mr MacKaill, the Police Federation representatives were previously accused of attempting to discredit former chief whip Andrew Mitchell after meeting him at his Sutton Coldfield constituency office in October 12 last year. Reading from a prepared statement, Mr Hinton and Mr Jones told the committee: "Our position so far as our meeting with Mr Mitchell is concerned has not changed. Mr Mitchell was stopped from cycling through the Downing Street gates While the committee appears to believe, however, that we are indifferent to Mr Mitchell's predicament, and the distress caused to him and his family since the original incident in Downing Street, we are not. Each of us fully recognises and regrets the fact that such distress has been caused. Mr Hinton went on to apologise in his evidence. Mr Jones remained defiant, refusing to apologise to Mr Mitchell. He told the committee: "I can't apologise for something that I haven't done, but I do regret the disproportionate distress it has caused his family and I would urge that the CPS report and the investigation into this matter is concluded as quickly as possible." Mr Vaz asked him: "You don't want to apologise for any distress?" Refusing to do so, he replied: "At the moment." Mr Hinton gave an "unqualified apology" to the committee for misleading the panel over a comment he used to describe Home Secretary Theresa May. CCTV of Mr Mitchell at the Downing Street gates In a transcript of his meeting with Mr Mitchell in October, Mr Hinton had referred to her as "this woman" but when questioned by the MPs last month he said it did not refer to Mrs May and it had been a transcript typo. He said: "I inadvertently gave an inaccurate answer to the committee on October 23. There was no intention to mislead the committee. I repeat my unqualified apology to the committee for this inaccuracy. All three police officers involved have been under pressure to apologise to Mr Mitchell for their conduct since an Independent Police Complaints Commission report last month questioned their "honesty and integrity." It concluded that evidence suggested the three had lied in media interviews about what Mr Mitchell had said in his meeting with them at his Sutton Coldfield constituency office to support police colleagues in London, who claimed he had called them "******* plebs" during a row over riding his bicycle in Downing Street. A transcript showed he apologised for swearing at the police officers, but denied using the word "plebs," while in comments made after the meeting Insp MacKaill claimed the former Tory chief whip refused to provide an account of the incident. The IPCC on Sunday announced a fresh investigation into the conduct of the officers saying the evidence they gave to the home affairs select committee revealed "a number of procedural irregularities" in earlier police reports. Dame Anne Owers, chair of the police watchdog, told the committee that both the IPCC inquiry into the original Sutton Coldfield dispute, and the latest claims over evidence, were expected to be completed by Christmas.