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Judge Baumgartner said it was an “exceptional case” with an “absence of profit, corruption, or actual harm” in most of the offending by the “immature” defendant.
Sentencing Davies, Judge Baumgartner said: “Your immaturity and naivety led you to act in such a stupid and unprofessional way.
“It was not out of corruption or out of malice.”
Adam Davies, 30, who was an officer with Surrey Police, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment suspended for two yearsAn “immature” ex-police officer has been spared jail after passing police information to criminal associates for “kudos”.
Adam Davies, 30, who was an officer with Surrey Police, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years at Southwark Crown Court on 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.
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