A police misconduct hearing which is set to open at 10am on 29th February, 2024 at West Yorkshire Police HQ in Wakefield will disseminate startling admissions from one of its younger, female officers.
A notice on the force website sets out the following:
PC 6883 Amelia Lancaster is alleged to have breached Standards of Professional Behaviour in terms of Honesty and Integrity and Discreditable Conduct.
The specification of those allegations is:
1. Between 31st August and 7th September 2023, at a private training gym, PC Lancaster stole cash from a wallet belonging to a personal trainer;
2. On 31st August 2023 PC Lancaster took a bank card from the same wallet and used it at a nearby shop to buy an item for herself;
3. On 7th September 2023, PC Lancaster took a bank card from the same wallet and used it at a nearby shop to buy an item for herself;
4 On 20th October 2023 PC Lancaster admitted the conduct described in 1-3 above and accepted a conditional caution for the criminal offences of theft and fraud by false representation.
If found guilty of gross misconduct one of the sanctions available to the Panel is dismissal without notice.
WYP has not named the Legally Qualified Chair or the other two members of the Panel whom will decide PC Lancaster’s future, or otherwise, in the police service.
They have not disclosed the reason for the delay in bringing the disciplinary proceedings to a conclusion following the administering of the conditional caution.
Amelia Lancaster is a former pupil of the prestigious, fee-paying Woodhouse Grove School (fees per term for day pupils £5,430). She completed a degree in Policing & Criminal Investigation at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) based in Preston, graduating with a 2:1.
After graduating, she started her career in the Metropolitan Police Service in May 2020 where she was based at Wimbledon Police Station, covering and policing the London Boroughs of Wandsworth & Merton.
After two and a half years working in the Met, she transferred to West Yorkshire Police, where, after finishing her transferee training course, Amelia was posted to Eccleshill Police Station in Bradford. One of the busiest and most challenging areas of the county to police.
Three moments of madness – or desperation – may well bring all that to a sorry end.
Page last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024 at 1505 hours
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