Top crimefighter sacked for serious email breach

A NATIONAL Crime Agency director was fired for using a personal email account to send “sensitive” and “secret” material after declassifying the information, the Sunday Express can reveal.

- Jon Austin

Nikki Holland was sacked last month after being found guilty of gross misconduct over “serious data breaches” by a disciplinary panel. The NCA’s now former Director of Investigations has time to appeal.

A separate probe by the Independent Office of Police Conduct into allegations of data protection breaches, bullying and misuse of a corporate credit card concerning Ms Holland continues.