A police officer will go on trial over allegations he had relationships with plenty of girls whose circumstances he was investigating.
Oliver Perry-Smith, 38, faces 5 expenses relating to 3 girls, together with one he’s mentioned to have seen in a store after which visited at dwelling after ‘acquiring her particulars’.
On a unique event he’s accused of beginning a sexual relationship with a girl he was investigating for harassment.
He’s additionally alleged to have used the police laptop system to lookup info on one other girl.
The misconduct expenses span between September 2014 and November 2019.
Former PC Perry-Smith, a towering and muscular man with a wet-shaved head, stood within the dock sporting a blue swimsuit, white shirt and purple tie, earlier than the choose East Berkshire Magistrates’ Courtroom in Slough.
Oliver Perry-Smith, 38, is accused of 5 expenses relating to 3 girls, courtroom heard at present
Perry-Smith faces three counts of misconduct in a public workplace and two of laptop misuse
He didn’t enter a plea to 3 counts of misconduct in a public workplace and two counts of laptop misuse.
Perry-Smith, who has give up his Thames Valley Police power since being accused was remanded on bail by a district choose.
Prosecutor Benjamin Might mentioned: ‘I counsel all issues are to be despatched straight to Crown Courtroom collectively.’
He added: ‘We’ve got no info to counsel he has dedicated any offences since,’ referring to the passage of time for the reason that alleged offences came about between 2015 to 2019.
Perry-Smith turned as much as courtroom in facemask and hat that utterly coated his complete head
Courtroom heard he left Thames Valley Police after being accused of the 5 allegations
Defending the ex-officer, Kiera Oluwunmi instructed District Choose Samuel Goozee that no witness statements had been compiled at this level within the case.
The police conduct physique, the Unbiased Workplace for Police Conduct, carried out an investigation into Perry-Smith, of Denman Drive, Newbury, Berks., in November 2019 and accomplished their investigation in June 2021.
The previous police officer spoke solely to substantiate his title and deal with. Presiding over the case, Choose Goozee, adjourned the case for Perry-Smith to subsequent seem in Studying Crown Courtroom on February 15.
A spokesman for the IOPC mentioned beforehand that the fees adopted the IOPC investigation into Police Constable Perry-Smith, over alleged inappropriate relationships he shaped with a number of girls in the course of the course of his duties.
‘Following a referral from TVP in November 2019 we started an investigation which was accomplished in June 2021. We referred a file of proof to the Crown Prosecution Service which has taken the choice to authorise a cost in opposition to the officer,’ mentioned the spokesman.