Lying cop who pawned his £399 police issue phone at Cash Converters spared jail

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. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. 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.