Policeman abused his job to spy on lover's husband

Scott Norman abused his position to further the relationship, a hearing was told. He was found guilty of gross misconduct for all four allegations he was accused of and would have been sacked had he not resigned during the investigation.
PC Norman, who was based in Oxford and worked in the intelligence unit, was barred from serving with Thames Valley Police.
It was said he was in a relationship with a woman referred to as “Mrs X”, who was the wife of a man named only as Richard.
Between 2021 and 2022, Norman accessed police records on an internal system called Niche a total of 14 times for non-policing purposes.
He repeatedly accessed the files of Richard and his now ex-wife, with whom Norman is still in a relationship.
In one instance he used the police records to find out the home address of Mrs X, which was ruled a “serious breach” of confidential data.
Norman also “pro-actively shared” information from the Niche system with Mrs X relating to a road traffic collision she was involved in.
He accessed a police report Richard made against his then wife and sought to influence Mrs X to make a counter-allegation against her husband, it was said. She filed the report an hour and a half after Norman spoke to her. The four allegations were individually found to amount to gross misconduct, ...