An officer who searched police computer systems for his own purposes has been sentenced at court following an investigation by Met anti-corruption officers.
PC Mohammed Rahman, 39 and attached to North East Command Unit, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, 1 December to 12 months’ imprisonment (suspended for two years), 100 hours of community service and 20 days of rehabilitation activity,
PC Rahman was suspended from duty but has since resigned. Now that criminal matters are complete, a misconduct hearing will still take place.
Chief Superintendent Simon Crick, who leads policing in the North East, said: “PC Rahman would have been well aware, as all officers are, that police systems must only be used for a legitimate purpose and certainly not to carry our personal checks for his own use.
“His actions did not meet the high standards we expect and we will now move to a misconduct hearing as soon as possible.”
PC Rahman was arrested in February 2021 and charged in August 2023.
The investigation was carried out by the Directorate of Professional Standards Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command and directed by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
It found evidence that between October 2018 and February 2021 PC Rahman made several unauthorised searches on Met intelligence and crime reporting databases to look for people including family members and addresses known to him and car registration numbers.
He then passed that information onto third parties outside the Met.
PC Rahman pleaded guilty on Monday, 23 October to seven charges of misconduct in public office.
