A serving Merseyside police officer was caught buying cocaine outside a pub while looking after his three-year-old daughter, a misconduct panel heard.
Former constable Jonathan Brown, 31, was fined £475 in court after admitting possession of a Class A drug and has since resigned from Merseyside Police. However his case was subject to an accelerated misconduct hearing before Chief Constable Serena Kennedy, where he was found guilty of gross misconduct for breaching standards of professional behaviour around discreditable conduct.
Brown was arrested on August 8, 2022, after buying three wraps of white powder from a blue Mercedes G35 car outside the Charnley Arms Pub on Almond Brook Road, in Standish, Wigan. The wraps were analysed by experts and found to contain just over a gram of cocaine. Brown was later charged with possession of a Class A drug and pleaded guilty at Manchester City Magistrates' Court, where he was sentenced on January 6.
