This One Has It All: A Bent Copper, Jaffa Cakes and The BBC.

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Link www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-58904606

For those who can't be arsed clicking, a cop took 2 packets of Jaffa Cakes and put 10p into the charity honesty box. He should have paid £1. His colleagues reported him and now he's been sacked.

This is being reported on the BBC and not just as a wee, one off story. They have 2 previous pieces on the case. Does this sound a bit weird because I'm thinking WTF is going on here?

I'm wondering why his colleagues reported him instead of just telling him to put a quid in the box.

I reckon they had some kind of grudge against him, who knows whether he was to blame for it or not.

Given the number of police officers accused of sexual misconduct it seems bizarre to fire someone over 90p.

He wasn't fired over 90p. He was fired because he lied about it to superiors. And probably he was this kind of person in all his dealings.

Exactly @Gingerkittykat. I can't see me reporting a stranger for nicking a quid's worth of stuff, nevermind a colleague. And if I did, I'd expect the peelers to laugh me out of the station. I also couldn't see the Beeb reporting on the theft of some Jaffa Cakes, even if it was a cop.

This is all just very odd.

Hmm perhaps women flashed at by coppers should report them stealing Jaffa Cakes rather than flashing...

Knowing that the police are not really ones for reporting each other, either they reported him as a joke or they were really fed up of him. If he straight out lied to a senior officer about the Jaffa cakes (and to be honest, why would a senior officer even have a discussion about 90p worth of Jaffa Cakes normally), which is a ridiculous thing to lie about - he could have lied and said he was going to top it up but forgot - it's likely indicative of a whole lot more.

Either that or he'll be appealing his dismissal over this.

It's dishonesty. I'm a lawyer and any dishonesty offence is a big issue for our regulator, even minor transgressions like paying a lower fare than you should on public transport. The public have to be able to trust us. The same must apply to the police.

I get that @eurochick, but I doubt a lawyer paying a lower fare on public transport would result in 3 separate news stories on the BBC.

It’s because the last few weeks have been open season on the Police by the vast majority of the media.