By Gavin Mackintosh-
A serving West Midlands Police officer charged with an historical sexual offence against a child committed the offence before he joined the police force but was not detected.
Student officer PC Joseph Powell is accused of assaulting a child under 13 by touching between 2009 and 2011. He faces a further charge of unauthorised access to information on a police computer, the information itself not dislosed to the media.
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He is due to appear at Coventry Magistrates’ Court on 10 November.
The force confirmed the sexual offence charge pertained to a period that pre-dated his employment with them and he has remained suspended since his arrest on 6 August 2020.
Numerous examples of police officers accused of misconduct who were never suspended,whilst police investigations are conducted exist, but when a charge of child sex abuse is announced, police forces across the country are forced to act and suspend their officers.
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Police forces in the Uk generally treat allegations of misconduct differently from criminal charges, until the misconduct is proven to have taken place. The roles are turned in criminal offences.
The increase in police officers being caught for child sex offences puts pressure on the Met to urgently raise its stands of recruitments.
Criminal offences by police officers are exceeding acceptable boundaries in an age where the public is searching for security and assurances. The many criminal offences committed by serving police officers highlight a desperate urgency for a clean up in all police officers.
Paedophiles should never be able to make their way into the police force where a strong qnd credible force is in action.
The shameful news will increase the call for a strong vetting of employment of police officers, Powell being one of the chief examples of that.
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