Corrupt cop who passed on intelligence is ‘sacked’
ACORRUPT cop jailed for passing on sensitive and confidential intelligence used by an organised crime group has been ‘sacked’ by the force.
Mohammed Malik, 37, was jailed for 28 months in June after he admitted three counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.
A court heard Malik, from Rochdale, passed on intelligence he took from Greater Manchester Police’s computer system to a third party in exchange for money.
The third party, his friend Mohammed Anis, from Bury, helped to provide cars to ‘serious and organised crime groups’, Liverpool
Crown Court was told.
Malik, the court heard, searched GMP’S intelligence database to find out if police officers were monitoring cars being used by the criminals - and for information known to police about Anis and his associates.
Anis, 35, was convicted after trial of the same offences as Malik and jailed for 46 months.
A ‘special case misconduct hearing’ was held at GMP headquarters on Friday in front of the force’s Chief Constable, Stephen Watson.
The hearing was told Malik - once a ‘highly commended officer’ - had already ‘tendered his resignation’.
But Chief Constable Watson ruled he would have been ‘dismissed without notice’ had he not already resigned.
Malik ‘conspired with a third party while acting as a police constable to wilfully misconduct himself by accessing GMP’S computer system’, it was said at the hearing.
The hearing was told the ‘conduct he has pleaded guilty to’ was capable of ‘causing harm to the public’s confidence in policing’.
His offending, it was said, spanned a year between February 2017 and January 2018.
Malik, the court heard, had visited Anis in January 2017, following a tragic crash in Saudi Arabia where Anis lost a number of members of his family, including his young child.
Over the course of the next several months, they embarked on an ‘unhealthy relationship’ where Anis would ask Malik to search for both people and cars on GMP’S internal systems, it was said.
At the time, Anis ‘ was involved, with others, in the provision of vehicles to organised crime groups’, prosecutor Jamie Hamilton said. Anis would then pay hundred of pounds to Malik for providing the results on a monthly basis, with investigators finding up to £600worth of payments in bank transfers, with potentially more in cash that could never be traced, heard the court.
Malik, the GMP hearing was told, was aware of the proceedings, but wasn’t present. The Chief Constable said: “Mr Malik has admitted the breaches against him and accepts that his behaviour amounts to gross misconduct.
“I am satisfied that Mr Malik’s breaches do amount to misconduct.”
In his judgement, Chief Constable Watson added: “The misconduct is of the most serious variety.
“It strikes at the very heart of what it is to be a professional police officer.”
He hit out at a ‘flagrant breach of public trust’ and said: “Mohammed Malik has proved himself unworthy of the office of constable. I would have dismissed him from the service without notice.”
Malik’s name will be added to the Royal College of Policing’s ‘barred list’ of names, the hearing was told.
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