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31.08.2023 - 06:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A former police officer who pawned his police issue phone and tablet has escaped prison.
Calum Power, 40, from Romiley in Stockport, was issued with a Samsung S9 smartphone and a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active tablet, in order to carry out his role as police officer in May 2019.
But in September 2021 PC Power placed the phone on a ‘buy back’ agreement with Cash Converters and signed a contract stating the item was owned by him.
Three months later he reported that he had lost the £399 phone after it had fallen out of the pocket of his work trousers into the canal in Manchester city centre.
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An investigation uncovered that it was not the first occasion PC Power had placed this phone on a buy back agreement, along with the tablet, worth £300, which he had reported he had accidentally disposed of during a house move In August 2020.
Between October 2019 and September 2021, he had entered into a series of buy back agreements with Cash Converters, with the phone on three occasions and the tablet on four occasions.
Power was found guilty following a trial at Liverpool magistrates’ court of two charges of theft in August 2020 and January 2021 and seven charges of fraud by false representation in relation to pawning the two devices.
Today (Wednesday) he has been sentenced to 34 weeks in prison suspended for 18 months. He must complete 15 rehabilitation days and 200 hours unpaid work.
He was also ordered to pay £400 compensation to Greater Manchester Police, £400 prosecution costs and a £156 victim surcharge.
After the hearing, Jeremy Bird, Senior Crown Prosecutor for Crown Prosecution Service in the north west, said: "As a serving police
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