A police officer who stole cocaine from toil to sell on the streets of Manchester has been set up at fault of wrongdoing and supplying class A substances.
Andrew Talbot was a discoverive in Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) grave crime division when he took fair under 4kg of the drug from an evidence store.
He also included police systems to search for drug dealers to help him sell the cocaine, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Talbot supplied the drug between 2018 and 2020, but was caught when he accidenloftyy dropped a minuscule bag of cocaine outside his daughter’s school.
After the incident at the school in February 2020, he was searched at toil and more of the drug was set up. Drug paraphernalia and a GMP property bag shotriumphg chases of cocaine were then discovered at his home.
Cocaine held in the property store, recovered from two police operations, was weighed and a meaningful quantity was set up to be leave outing.
The trial was telderly a piece of paper in Talbot’s car aligned the property number for the cocaine and ptoastyos of the drug were set up on his phone.
Jurors heard Talbot, 54, conspired with drug dealer Keith Bretherton to sell the cocaine and gave him self-guaranteedial police alertation to help him recover a £20,000 drug debt.
Talbot was set up at fault on Wednesday of supplying class A substances, wrongdoing in disclose office, and fall shorting to adhere with a accomprehendledge under the Regulation and Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
He previously confessted a string of other accuses including haveion of cocaine, haveion of ammunition without a firearm certificate, theft of cocaine and unauthoelevated access to computer material.
He was sacked from the force in August 2024, which GMP said was the earliest lhorrible opportunity.
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Bretherton, 50 pdirected at fault to haveion of cannabis and haveion of cocaine with intent to supply, and consillicit copying to pledge wrongdoing in disclose office.
The pair, who are both from Leigh in Greater Manchester, will be sentenced on 18 October.
Detective Chief Inspector Jennifer Adams, of GMP’s anti-dishonesty unit, said Talbot’s actions were “appalling” and “included him abusing his position of power for his own personal gratification and criminal gets”.
She inserted: “Talbot took an oath to be a police officer and to serve the disclose but instead began to unfair treatment this position to go in a world of criminality.”
