'Immature' former officer spared jail in misconduct trial

DAVIES PASSED INFORMATION TO CRIMINALS

- By SAM HALL

AN “immature” ex-police officer has been spared jail after passing police information to criminal associates for “kudos”.

Adam Davies, 30, who was PC with Surrey Police in Guildford, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years at Southwark Crown Court last Thursday after admitting four counts of misconduct in a public office.

Davies wept as His Honour Judge Tony Baumgartner read out the suspended sentence.

While searching a missing elderly man’s house on October 10 2020, Davies could be heard on a video “mocking and praising” the man for owning pornographic DVDs, Judge Baumgartner said.

The judge added: “There was no policing purpose for you to film in the vulnerable man’s home as you did.”

The video was discovered after an associate of Davies, Kai Portlock, was arrested and his phone was seized after a large quantity of cocaine was found in Portlock’s vehicle.

Judge Baumgartner said Davies was then “fishing for information” about Portlock’s arrest, which formed another charge.

A message exchange was discovered on Portlock’s phone on October 10 2020 in which, the court heard, Davies stated: “We should go into business, all the seized stock I take.”