Trial hears detective stole drugs from force

DAD 'TOOK COCAINE SEIZED BY OFFICERS TO SELL BACK TO DEALERS ON STREET'

- LYNDA ROUGHLEY

A GREATER Manchester Police detective was arrested after he accidentally dropped a drug wrap in the grounds of his daughter's primary school, a trial heard.

When the school's CCTV system showed the small snap bag falling from Andrew Talbot's back pocket it was seized by his employers, a jury at Liverpool Crown Court was told.

After analysis found it to hold a small amount of cocaine, Talbot was arrested when he arrived for work at Nexus House, the base for GMP's serious and organised crime squad in Ashton, on February 17, 2020.