Detective tried to hide 'inappropriate' liaisons with junior colleagues

HE REFERRED TO ONE STAFF MEMBER IN MESSAGES AS 'CUTE' AND 'HOT'

- By JOSHUA HARTLEY

A NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Police detective attempted to hide inappropriate relationships with junior colleagues and used work time to visit one of them, a misconduct panel has heard.

The accelerated misconduct hearing into former Detective Inspector Adam Walker's actions found that he would have been sacked if he had not already quit the force.

The hearing, held at force headquarters on Sherwood Drive, Arnold, yesterday, was told that Walker had been at West Yorkshire Police from 2005 to 2023, when he moved to Nottinghamshire Police.

He had commenced an affair with a staff member at the Yorkshire force at the end of 2022, the hearing heard, and had tried to cover his tracks by giving the junior employee a police issue work phone to message him on.

The staff member, who was anonymised in the meeting as Person A, had "personal difficulties" and was known to be vulnerable.

As part of his scheme to keep the “inappropriate” relationship secret, he had told a supervisor that the pair were “simply just friends”, the hearing was told.