A police evidence officer who plundered more than £14,000 from evidence stores [redacted] faces jail after pleading guilty.
What have I redacted? Well, Reader, read on...
Lisa Arnold, 52, worked as an evidence officer for Dorset police and had access to bank notes seized in previous police operations. She used her position to plunder wads of notes on 17 separate occasions - totalling £14,494.She started stealing money from the safes in Dorset Police headquarters at Winfrith, near Dorchester, in 2018 and spent three-and-a-half years going back for more.
Didn't they notice? Well, no. It seems they were handing over cash to the evidence room without counting it!
Yes! Unbelievable as it sounds...
Despite two internal investigations into money going missing from the station, she did not stop stealing until she was caught on March 19, 2022.
Hopeless.
6 comments:
Firstly-not a police officer despite the attempts of the Daily Mail to infer that she is.
Secondly-when large amounts of cash are seized by police the money is not counted at the scene. It is double-bagged in front of all officers present and the bag is signed by all of us. Once back at the station it handed to someone like this woman who opens the bag and counts it and logs it as evidence. Obviously there are people who will be tempted and if the money is taken from drug dealers then who can they complain too? An imperfect system.
Jaded
Someone counted i, because the precise sum is mentioned.
The source article also mentions 'blank notes' - so come on Julia, do your job criticising journalists who don't check their copy!
The precise sum also includes a 20p at the end, so she wasn't only nicking notes. Betcha she had a whole lot more than the sum quoted.
Which note(s) were included to make the total end in a four? Or is this story from long ago, when one pound notes were used?
Ed P - you won't complain when that Nigerian prince sends you his inheritance in £4 notes!
"Firstly-not a police officer despite the attempts of the Daily Mail to infer that she is."
What, you expected journalism?
"Secondly-when large amounts of cash are seized by police the money is not counted at the scene."
And thereby hangs the issue at hand, no? It should be.
"The source article also mentions 'blank notes'..."
No spellchecker will ever catch that...
"Ed P - you won't complain when that Nigerian prince sends you his inheritance in £4 notes!"
😂🤣
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