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PORN SHAME OF PC DANKS

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now that I’ve no idea what you’re talking about, to be honest with you. And I’m not prepared to speak to you.”

The seedy episode is not the first to blight Tayside officers and follows a smutty text message scandal involving the area’s former police chief.

In 2012, then Tayside Police chief constable Justine Curran was caught talking about a colleague’s manhood with her former personal assistant Theresa Noble.

Noble was being investigat­ed at the time for an alleged insurance fraud.

The probe uncovered the saucy messages, which were sent while Curran was out of the office.

She texted Noble to find out if a senior colleague was at the force’s headquarte­rs in Dundee.

He was suspected of having an affair with a civilian worker at the time.

Curran sent Noble a text saying: “Is [x] there?”

She replied: “No, he’s probably with [y]?” Curran responded: “He must have a big willy.” Noble wrote back: “Yuck.”

A police car was then sent to an address to check if vehicles belonging to the pair were there.

Neither woman faced any disciplina­ry action but Noble later resigned after the fraud probe against her was dropped.

Curran was recently forced to step down as the boss of Humberside Police and take early retirement after 67 per cent of staff sided against her leadership in a vote of no confidence. S

Do you have a story you think we should investigat­e? c call us on 0141 309 3251 POLICE SCOTLAND The officer left the organisati­on after misconduct proceeding­s

 ??  ?? THUMBS UP Danks, left, filmed himself at Longhaugh police station, above TEXTS 0ur 2012 article on ex-Tayside chief Justine Curran’s saucy messages
THUMBS UP Danks, left, filmed himself at Longhaugh police station, above TEXTS 0ur 2012 article on ex-Tayside chief Justine Curran’s saucy messages

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