POLICE officers in South Yorkshire have been arrested for assault, possessing an offensive weapon, affray and seeking prostitution, The Star can reveal today.
South Yorkshire Police have released details of the arrests of 20 officers between January 2003 and October 2008 under the Freedom of Information Act.
The force accept more officers may have been quizzed but their details are not logged on the com
puter system in the same way.
Records show that of the 19 men and one woman arrested, six resigned from as serving officers and another was sacked during his probationary period.
Six cases were dropped because of insufficient evidence and another five were dropped on the advice of the Crown Prosecution Service.
Four cases reached court - one for theft, two for drink driving and one for using violence.
The 41-year-old male officer arrested for theft was fined £500, ordered to pay £700 costs and resigned before a force misconduct hearing was held.
Two officers arrested for drink driving - a woman aged 22 and a man of 45, were both fined £200 and banned from driving. The woman resigned before the case reached court but the man is still serving and was fined an extra 13 days' pay after a force misconduct hearing.
A 22-year-old man arrested for using violence was fined £90 and quit the force before the case reached court. Fixed penalty notices were issued to two officers, aged 41 and 40, for public order offences - the younger of which resigned his post.
A 31-year-old male officer who accepted an official caution for battery and possession of an offensive weapon resigned as did a 22-year-old probationary officer who accepted a caution for drunk and disorderly behaviour.
One case, involving a 36-year-old man accused of drink driving, has not yet reached court.
Chief Superintendent Robert Varey, South Yorkshire Police head of professional standards, said: "South Yorkshire Police currently employs more than 3,000 police officers. Over a period of five years, 20 equates to a very small proportion of the whole.
"South Yorkshire Police deal with arrested police officers in the same manner as any other arrest, in accordance with the law."
The Catalogue of Arrests:
- Three for assault.
- Four drink driving.
- One wounding.
- One drunk and disorderly behaviour.
- Two theft.
- One soliciting a female for prostitution.
- One outraging public decency.
- One battery
- One possession of an offensive weapon.
- One obtaining drinks by deception.
- Two public order offences.
- One affray.
- One using violence against a person.
- One making threats of a serious nature.
- One failing a roadside breath test.
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