Senior cop dropped a bag of cocaine outside his daughter's school... his 'appalling' crimes were then revealed

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A Greater Manchester Police detective who stole drugs from the evidence store at work and supplied it onto the streets of Manchester was eventually caught out after dropping a bag of cocaine outside his daughter's school.

Disgraced cop Andrew Talbot, who was previously a detective working within the force’s serious crime division, stole just under four kilos of cocaine from the GMP property store, before then supplying it between February 2018 and January 2020.

He also searched the force's confidential computer systems for known or suspected drug dealers to help him shift the drugs and provided information to a friend who was under investigation for assault, a court heard. READ MORE The lonely world of a desperate mum and the child she loved too much to leave alone Talbot, from Leigh, also conspired with a convicted drug dealer, Keith Bretherton, and used his position as a police officer to give him confidential force information to help him to recover a drug debt worth more than £20,000, the CPS said.

The major police investigation into Talbot by GMP’s anti-corruption unit first began after he dropped a small bag of cocaine outside his daughter’s primary school on February 13 2020.