In July, a judge branded George Voisey “a disgrace” after he admitted downloading the most serious category of child sex abuse video.
Lewes Crown Court heard the Category A video and other images the 24-year-old downloaded showed children as young as nine.
A former police constable, Voisey was not on duty at the time of the offences, and was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months, at Lewes Crown Court on Friday, July 11.
Voisey resigned from the force on March 1.
He was the subject of an accelerated misconduct hearing on Thursday (August 21), following the conclusion of criminal proceedings in July.
The hearing heard Voisey made 12 indecent images of children and had distributed a Category A video of a child.
Thursday’s misconduct hearing was presided over by Assistant Chief Constable Rosie Ross, who found the allegations amounted to a breach of the standards of professional behaviour, namely discreditable conduct, and, had the officer not already resigned, they would have been dismissed without notice.
Voisey has also been placed on the barred list, preventing him from serving as a police officer again.
Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Gillies, of Sussex Police’s Professional Standards Department, said: “George Voisey’s criminal behaviour is clearly far removed from the high standards we and the public rightly expect of police officers.
“Individuals guilty of such appalling behaviour have no place in policing, and Voisey would rightly have been dismissed without notice had he remained a serving officer. It is fitting that he is also barred from serving as an officer in future.
“As a force we will continue to instil the values, ethics and behaviour our public deserves, and root out any officers whose conduct falls short of those high standards.”
An accelerated misconduct hearing is held when there is incontrovertible evidence and it is in the public interest to remove the officer from service as soon as possible, or in the case of an ex-officer, to have them placed on the barred list.
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