West Yorkshire Police say that a Misconduct Hearing is to be held at 2pm on 7th May, 2024 in respect of former PC Sanya Shahid.
On 21st February 2024, at Leeds Crown Court, former PC Shahid, 31, pleaded guilty to three counts of Unauthorised Access to Computer Material under Section1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
She was sentenced to nine months in prison after the judge, HHJ Robin Mairs, told her: “It was systematic trawling for information on your then partner. You knew he had links to organised crime, firearms, drugs and serious criminality..
The court had heard she used police databases to look for information car registration plates and phone numbers in October 2020.
These allegations breach the Standards of Professional Behaviour in respect of Discreditable Conduct, Honesty and Integrity, Confidentiality and Orders and Instructions and amount to gross misconduct, namely conduct so serious as to justify dismissal.
After the court hearing Detective Chief Supt Nicola Bryar said PC Shahid, who lived in Bradford and was working in the Leeds district at the time of the offending, “had no policing purpose” for the searches and the officer had been suspended from duty once the offences came to light.
“We make it very clear to all employees from the outset of their employment that they must only access information held on police systems for a legitimate policing purpose.
“The public quite rightly should expect that any sensitive and confidential information recorded about them is protected. “It was clear from this investigation that PC Shahid had no policing purpose in making the searches she carried out on West Yorkshire Police computer systems. I hope this case helps demonstrates how seriously we take any suggestion of unauthorised access of data.”
An investigation into the officer had been carried out by the force’s Counter Corruption Unit, under the direction of the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
PC Shahid had initially denied the offending but changed her plea four days into the criminal trial.
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