Greater Manchester Police officer Andrew Talbot, 54, stole the drug and sold it on to dealers.
A “cocaine addicted” police officer who was found to be stealing drugs from an evidence store after he accidentally dropped a bag of white powder at his daughter's school has been jailed.
The 54-year-old was found guilty of supplying the drug and misconduct in public office and sentenced to 19 years in jail at Liverpool Crown Court.Sentencing him on Friday, Judge Neil Flewitt KC said Talbot had deceived colleagues to put a “significant” quantity of cocaine back into circulation as a result of his “addiction and greed”.
"Unsurprisingly, given they knew he was a police officer, they contacted the police," he told the court.Talbot was arrested on 17 February 2020 after arriving for work, and officers found 26.8g of high-grade cocaine in his coat pocket, as well as smaller amounts of lower purity, the court heard. Mr Lake said Talbot accepted when he attended the property sore "he would take pocketfuls, as much as he could fit in his pockets".
Talbot also provided confidential police information to a friend under investigation for assault and to Bretherton, to help him recover a drug debt worth more than £20,000, the court heard.He said: "He did have at the time a long-standing addiction to cocaine."
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