'GMP has no place for depraved cops like him'

SACKED OFFICER TOLD VULNERABLE WOMAN TO SEND HIM EXPLICIT VIDEOS

- ASHLIE BLAKEY

A GREATER Manchester Police officer has been sacked for having an ‘improper relationship’ with a vulnerable woman.

Paul Banks, who worked as a Pc in Salford, met the woman in the course of his duties.

He told her to create an email account and then accessed explicit videos and pictures that she had uploaded to it.

He clicked on these more than 200 times and failed to report them. But his own colleagues reported him to the force’s Professional Standards Branch.

Banks has now been sacked without notice after a Gross Misconduct hearing last week. He had been on restricted duties since the investigation began in December 2020.