TWO police officers investigated over a car chase that ended in the death of a 17-year-old boy will not face criminal charges, while one has retired and will also escape misconduct proceedings.

Liam Albert, of Vectis Road, Mitcham, died eight days after crashing a stolen Mazda in Esher in July 2009, following a 10-mile chase down the A3 from Merton involving Metropolitan Police officers PC Paul Rogers, the driver, and PC John Wills.

An inquest jury said in 2011 that the Met had made a “material contribution” to the teen’s death and should have stopped the chase 2.7km earlier. Afterwards the force said it had reviewed its guidance for officers around chases.

Documents submitted to the inquest and subsequently revealed by the Comet showed that after the crash, in Lammas Lane, Surrey Police officers tried to retrieve PC Rogers’ phone to see pictures he had taken but were refused by him and an inspector, Mandy Chamberlain.

The photos were deleted when Surrey Police requested the phone be handed over, PC Rogers said in the documents.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has declined to charge any members of police staff with criminal offences after being handed evidence by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

But the IPCC, which completed an investigation into the crash and the circumstances surrounding it last summer, has ordered the Met to hold gross misconduct hearings in respect of Insp Chamberlain and PC Wills.

PC Wills was not implicated in the criminal investigation.

PC Rogers retired from the force last month, following the CPS’ decision, and will not face a hearing.

A Met spokesman said: “As the case pre-dated changes to police regulations preventing the retirement of officers, and the officer was not suspended from duty at the time of retirement, he was able to do so.”

Two control room operators who managed the pursuit will face disciplinary proceedings, however.

All the hearings will be held “in due course”, the Met said, while both PC Wills and Insp Chamberlain remain on restricted duty.

Albert’s parents, Sharla John and Delroy Albert, told the Comet: “We met with the CPS who explained their decision not to prosecute Inspector Chamberlain and PC Rogers.

“Whilst we did not agree with that decision, we have accepted it, knowing that the IPCC would direct that the officers and police staff were made to account where failings or improper conduct was identified through the investigation and inquest.

“We were therefore shocked to learn only this week that some time ago the Commissioner of Police had accepted a retirement request from PC Rogers, enabling him to evade all accountability.”

An IPCC spokeswoman said: “The IPCC investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Liam Albert, who died following a traffic collision on July 8, 2009, was completed in June 2015 and a file of evidence was provided to the CPS.

“[It] related to the actions of a police constable and a police inspector following the accident.”