A former police officer who shared confidential information about arrests and road accidents has been jailed.The 38-year-old, of London End in Irchester, Northamptonshire, found the details on the police computer and gave them to friends and family.
He admitted a charge of misconduct in a public office and was sentenced on Friday at Southwark Crown Court to nine months in prison.Northamptonshire Police said PC Bell shared details of incidents that were not available to the general public between September 2019 and June 2022. An accelerated misconduct hearing was already held on Thursday, chaired by Paul Gibson, the chief constable of Lincolnshire Police.The Lincolnshire Chief Constable Paul Gibson chaired the misconduct hearing last week
Ch Insp Adam Pendlebury, from Northamptonshire Police’s professional standards department, said: “This information should be handled sensitively and accessed only when there is a legitimate policing purpose to do so.“PC Bell’s offending took place over a long period of time, demonstrating a lack of integrity and undermining public confidence in policing."