WPC Jessica Simon goes beyond the call of duty on a flooded west coast. (0404415)
A POLICEWOMAN who looked up her boyfriend’s criminal history has been sentenced to 40 hours’ community service.
Jessica Simon, 21, of Flat 3, 10, Mount Row, St Peter Port, admitted four charges of using the police records computer to get unauthorised information about her boyfriend.
The Magistrate’s Court heard that it was accepted that the information was not acted upon nor passed to anyone else.
Sentencing had been adjourned for social inquiry reports and an earlier hearing had been told how Simon’s shift had been briefed on 13 August about a burglary in the Markets.
Her boyfriend was one of the suspects and she admitted having spoken to him after viewing CCTV footage and accessing his record.
She had done so, she said, to see if he was an active criminal.
The court heard that Simon had been warned to be careful about the company she kept while in police employment.
She believed ‘that she was not alone in these actions’.
‘It is clearly accepted by the prosecution that this was purely for your own well-intentioned, if misguided, use,’ assistant-Magistrate Philip Robey said imposing the community service order.
Simon resigned from the force in October, two years after she had been sworn in as an officer.
Article posted on 4th July, 2008 - 2.29pm
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