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Home Office: Staff

Answer

Since 21 December 2011 there have been 22 convictions of Home Office staff in connection with their official activities. All the officers were subject to appropriate disciplinary procedures and were ultimately dismissed as a result of their conviction.

After careful consideration our decision is to continue to withhold the names of those convicted as per our previous reply on the matter. We will continue to provide the number and nature of the offences, dates of conviction and sentences received.

The following table below shows the breakdown of convictions and dates:

Charges	Conviction date	Sentence
Misconduct in public office	9th March 2012	Four years and three months
Misconduct in public office	29th June 2012	Four years
Misconduct in public office	13th July 2012	Nine years
Assisting unlawful immigration	16th October 2012	Nine months suspended, 240 hours community service and electronically tagged for three months.
Misconduct in public office	15th May 2013	Four years
Two cases of Data Protection Act offences – obtain/disclose personal data	8th October 2013	One year conditional discharge and £100 costs
Misconduct in public office, assisting unlawful immigration	31st January 2014	Two years for misconduct Six months assisting concurrent
Misconduct in public office and two counts of computer misuse	11th September 2014	Two years for misconduct One year for computer misuse (all suspended for two years as wife was ill and children to look after) concurrent 300 hours of community service during suspended sentence
20 counts of computer misuse	2nd February 2015	Five months, each charge concurrent (suspended for one year as wife was ill)
Perjury, assisting unlawful immigration	9th April 2015	Police caution
Conspiracy to defraud, money laundering	17th April 2015	Three years and six months
Two counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office and two counts of unlawful provision of immigration advice	5th June 2015	Two years and three months
Two counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office	5th June 2015	Six months suspended for two years and 180 hours unpaid work
Three counts of theft, two counts of fraud and one count of misconduct in public office	10th June 2015	One year suspended for two years, 250 hours community service and £1000 towards court costs
Fraud by abuse of position	4th August 2015	28 weeks
Computer misuse	15th September 2015	Caution for offences contrary to section 1(1) and (3) of the Computer Misuse Act 1990
Two counts of misconduct in public office	10th December 2015	Nine months, suspended for two years and 200 hours community service
Fraud by false representation	12th July 2016	Sentence of one year, suspended for 18 months and 300 hours community service. Electronically tagged for four months
Conspiracy to defraud	27th October 2016	One year custodial sentence
Theft	12th April 2017	Sentenced to six months, suspended for two years and 150 hours of community service
12 counts of computer misuse	11th September 2017	One year, suspended for two years and 200 hours unpaid work and court costs.
Assisting unlawful immigration	9th April 2018	11 years

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL7992

Session

2017-19

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Crime Convictions Home Office Misconduct Staff

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