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**Biscuits_AB** · 16-04-2012, 17:21

I wonder how many others have done this sort of thing...

PCSO jailed for text warning
16 Apr 2012

A Wrexham Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) has been sent to prison for 10 months for releasing confidential information.

Lisa Stapley was accused of sending a text message to a friend to warn her police were searching for her.

The court heard Stapley sent a message to a woman saying: “Get out of Wrexham, the police are looking for you."

Stapley admitted to four charges of misconduct in a public office. There was no financial gain and in three of the four charges she was not prejudicing any police investigation or advancing a criminal purpose.

Judge Philip Hughes, talking about the sending of the text message, said: "By doing so you helped your friend evade the attention of the police.

"That is the most serious aspect of your offending. It was a gross breach of trust.

“The court has a duty not only to punish you but to send out a message to those who work in the police, either as police officers or community support officers, that such behaviour is so serious that only immediate custody can be imposed."

The deputy chief constable for North Wales Police, Ian Shannon, said: "This case demonstrates our resolve to thoroughly and rigorously investigate any instance where the integrity of our staff may be called into question.

"In any case, where corruption is found, we will ensure that those responsible are brought to justice, as we have done in this case."

**maccabonga** · 16-04-2012, 17:32

Plenty, Stapley is just a cheap sacrifice.

**RIGRAT** · 16-04-2012, 18:10

On a similar note, am I allowed to grip PCSO's for looking unprofessional?

I quite often see them cutting about with their head dress off or generally looking scruffy.

**The_IRON** · 16-04-2012, 18:17

I wonder how many police hours and cost of the enquiry for the tax payer to get this criminal mastermind brought to justice. Now this investigation is completed and conviction stats looking a bit better they can put a bit more effort in catching those petty criminals up North like rapists, murderers and druggies.

**Spanish_Dave** · 16-04-2012, 18:22

Get out of the block quick, Fred didnt turn up for guard duty

**The_IRON** · 16-04-2012, 18:29

Originally Posted by Spanish_Dave

Get out of the block quick, Fred didnt turn up for guard duty

A long time ago when i was a single young Cfn/Lance Jack I always had an empty can of beer in my locker for that very occassion...when ROS/ROO came banging on my door in Traz on a Saturday/Sunday morning saying they needed stand in guard as someone hadnt shown Id open another can and swig beer and say I was an early starter and been on the beer. Im grassing you up though Dave I bet you used to warn the pads.

**superjb** · 16-04-2012, 18:30

Originally Posted by RIGRAT

On a similar note, am I allowed to grip PCSO's for looking unprofessional?

I quite often see them cutting about with their head dress off or generally looking scruffy.

Yes i agree.champion send the t.a. To jail.

**Boumer** · 16-04-2012, 19:36

Originally Posted by RIGRAT

On a similar note, am I allowed to grip PCSO's for looking unprofessional?

I quite often see them cutting about with their head dress off or generally looking scruffy.

Please do. For the amout they are paid, they should be smartly turned out.

A lot of them could do with losing a stone or three and learning English too.

On a serious note, with their pay and conditions added to the hammering "back room staff" are taking morale must be pretty low.

Ideal targets for corruption, I fear.

**Boumer** · 17-04-2012, 09:42

Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB

I wonder how many others have done this sort of thing...

Lisa Stapley was accused of sending a text message to a friend to warn her police were searching for her.

The court heard Stapley sent a message to a woman saying: “Get out of Wrexham, the police are looking for you."

Stapley admitted to four charges of misconduct in a public office. There was no financial gain and in three of the four charges she was not prejudicing any police investigation or advancing a criminal purpose.

Er, have you read the BBC coverage?

BBC News - Wrexham PCSO Lisa Stapley jailed for information leaks

Stapley's barrister, Patrick Cassidy, said his client was a lesbian, recruited by North Wales Police as part of its equality and diversity policy.

Stapley joined the force in 2008, initially working on Anglesey.
She was then posted to Wrexham, where she had worked for 10 years as a taxi driver.
She suffered from depression, the court heard, and in 2009 her civil partnership broke down and her mother died.
"With the personality she has, the resolve she was expected to have weakened and she passed on bits of information in the way that the court had heard," Mr Cassidy said
When interviewed, Stapley said she saw herself as an unofficial point of contact for the lesbian community of Wrexham.

Mr Cassidy said it was done in the context of the tight-knit lesbian community she was part of, and she later resigned.

That's fine then, it's all just looking after your tight-knit community. I know some bank robbers, is that OK?

Best this is moved to the NAAFI before the safety catch comes off....