A police firearms licensing officer who copied highly sensitive intelligence information from the force’s computer system has been given a suspended prison sentence. Ella Aplin photographed the screen on a terminal at her office in police headquarters in Exeter and sent the information to her then boyfriend in February of last year. The data was […]
A Gloucestershire Constabulary police constable has been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison after driving police vehicles while disqualified. Miles Caffull, 26, from Ledbury, had been a response officer based in Gloucester. He appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, January 15, where he pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and driving a motor vehicle […]
On Friday 12 January 2023, James Riley of Preston, Lancashire was sentenced to 16 years at Manchester Crown Court for attempted murder after pleading guilty to the offence. Greater Manchester Police initially responded to a call of a concern for the welfare of a woman in her 20s unresponsive at a hotel on Brook Street […]
In January, the Home Secretary launched a review into the process of police officer dismissals, to ensure that the system is fair and effective at removing those officers who are not fit to serve. Following conclusion of that review, on 31 August, the government announced a series of reforms to strengthen the police disciplinary system, […]
A paedophile police officer had more than 200 victims and blackmailed teenage girls into sending images of them performing sexual acts on themselves, a court has heard. Lewis Edwards, 23, who was a South Wales police officer, groomed 210 girls between 10 and 16 years old on Snapchat over a period of three years. He […]
The Met Commissioner has demanded an overhaul of the way police officers are treated by the justice system amid a growing row over the decision to charge a firearms specialist with murder. Sir Mark Rowley called for better legal protection for officers who used force while on duty and said there must be more clarity […]
See Update 25th September 2023 below: A Metropolitan Police officer charged with murdering unarmed Black man Chris Kaba has kept his name secret – for now. Mr Kaba died after he was shot in the head through the windscreen of the car he was driving in September 2022. The officer, identified only as NX121, appeared at Westminster […]
A policeman who punched an autistic man in the head seven times during an arrest has been jailed for 12 weeks. Video evidence of the attack by PC Jack Williams, 27, in the back of a police van in Swansea in October 2022 was seen by Newport Magistrates Court. Tariq Evans, now 23, lost his […]
A former Lincolnshire Police constable has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after sending sexual messages to vulnerable women. Shaun Wheeler, 56, met the women on duty and tried to start inappropriate relationships with them. Nottingham Crown Court handed down this sentence today (Tuesday, September 5), after Wheeler had previously admitted to two counts of misconduct […]
Former Metropolitan Police officer Adam Provan has been jailed for 16 years – with another eight years on extended licence for multiple rapes against a teenage girl and a female police officer. The 44-year-old was convicted in June of six counts of rape of a fellow police officer between 2003 and 2005. He was also found […]
Two Metropolitan Police Service officers have been convicted of driving offences, with one officer jailed for three years, following an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation into a collision in south London in which a 25-year-old female pedestrian died. Police Constable (PC) Nadeem Patel, 28, was given the jail term for causing the death of […]
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) invoked its rarely-used “power of initiative” after the force did not identify any conduct matters following a review into any reports which could have led to action being taken against former the PC David Carrick sooner. Carrick, 48, was jailed for at least 30 years in February after […]