A FORMER police officer charged with misconduct and corruption which involved 'inappropriate contact with a suspect' is due to be sentenced this week.

Former West Mercia Police officer Nicholas Peacock, 39, is due to be sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Friday, September 20.

The former police constable of Victoria Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire faces sentence after being charged with misconduct in public office and corruption or improper exercise of police powers and privileges by a constable.

The IPOC was advised that PC Peacock resigned from West Mercia Police in March.

A spokesperson for the court confirmed the hearing was for sentence.

The charges are in relation to incidents which took place while he was a PC in Market Drayton from February – April 2022. 

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It said that, being a holder of a public office, he wilfully neglected to perform a duty / wilfully misconducted himself between February 4, 2022 and April 26, 2022 in Whitchurch, Shropshire.

The charge pertains to 'inappropriate contact with a suspect in a criminal allegation of assault' and states he closed the investigation 'without properly investigating the allegation'.

The corruption charge involves him acting 'improperly by closing an investigation into an assault' and 'without properly investigating the allegation' and that he 'knew or ought to have known that to do so was improper'.