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A police officer has been dismissed after a watchdog investigation found him to have initiated a sexual relationship with a woman he met on duty, failed to disclose multiple conflicts of interest, intimidated a former partner, attempted to falsify evidence, and asked a colleague to lie.
He also intimidated former partner over intimate photos, tried to falsify evidence and asked colleague to lie officer has been dismissed after a watchdog investigation found he had initiated a sexual relationship with a woman he met on duty.found he had also failed to disclose multiple conflicts of interest, intimidated a former partner, attempted to falsify evidence and asked a colleague to lie.
Ombudsman Jacqui Durkin has described the police officer’s behaviour as a “catalogue of corruption” that had “the potential to do serious damage to public trust and confidence in policing”. The case was referred to the ombudsman by the North’s chief constable for independent investigation. It stemmed from an assault allegation made to the police by one woman, woman A, against another, woman B, towards the end of 2018.
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Within 24 hours of meeting woman B to take her statement, he had contacted her through Facebook and Snapchat and then began a sexual relationship with her. The ombudsman said a short time later they were living together and had a child before their relationship ended in early 2020.
“Every action he took from the point he chose not to disclose his original conflict of interest with woman A compounded his failure,” the ombudsman said. “It is appalling that within 24 hours of meeting woman B he had taken advantage of his position as a police officer to contact her and to form an inappropriate relationship with her.
“The power imbalance between a police officer and a woman who is not only accused of a crime but has also alleged that she was a victim of a crime herself could not be more stark. “Police officers know the standards which are expected of them and the professional boundaries which they must not cross.
” She said that five weeks after police officer B had taken woman B’s original handwritten statement, he created a typed version, changed the date on which it had been taken and brought it home to be signed by her. Woman B told ombudsman investigators that while she was unaware of the implications of signing the altered statement, her account of what happened had not been changed.
The ombudsman said that as well as obtaining woman B’s fresh signature and falsely recording the date, police officer B also replaced his own name with that of police officer A. He asked police officer A to sign the statement, telling him that he knew woman B because she lived close to some of his family members. Police officer A refused to sign the statement and reported the matter to his supervising sergeant.
Durkin said that a further conflict of interest also emerged when the ombudsman’s investigators found that a week before meeting woman B to take her statement, police officer B had been appointed as the investigating officer for an assault allegation involving woman B’s former boyfriend. That investigation continued until March 2019, overlapping with the relationship between police officer B and woman B. Durkin said that though he was aware the man was a former boyfriend, police officer B did not disclose that he was living with woman B, in an intimate relationship with her and that she was expecting his child.
“At this point, police officer B has not one, but three separate conflicts of interest in ongoing criminal investigations,” Durkin said. The investigation also extended to a further incident in 2021 when another woman who had been in a relationship with police officer B reported to police she had received a threatening, anonymous letter. The letter was sent a short time after police officer B had been made aware that he was being investigated for his contact with vulnerable women.
The ombudsman said it included an intimate photograph of the woman and made threats that more photos would be sent to her family. The only person she had shared the photo with was her former boyfriend, police officer B. Two weeks before she received the letter, she had also received a phone notification that he had downloaded all of the images she had shared with him.
When examined, the police officer’s phone contained 51 images of the woman including intimate photos similar to the one she had received anonymously through the post. At the conclusion of the investigation, a file was sent to the North’s Public Prosecution Service . The PPS directed no prosecution. The PSNI misconduct panel found that police officer B had misconducted himself by breaching the PSNI code of ethics and he was dismissed.
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