Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2014 18:04:00 GMT
Jan 7, 2011
A Metropolitan Police Officer has been sentence to 12 months in prison and dismissed with immediate effect, after he was found guilty of fraud and false accounting in relation to almost £12,000.
Andrew Bramwell was a Detective Sergeant working in a team of officers sent to Leeds to investigate the suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July 2005.
In May 2006, the team was allocated accommodation in flats at a development called The Chambers, Riverside West in Leeds.
All the officers had American Express cards to use for travel and subsistence expenses while on duty. However, the management of The Chambers did not accept American Express due to the level of fees involved and so officers had to go to an American Express office in York to withdraw large amounts of cash to pay the rent.
Mr Bramwell took on much of the responsibility for the payment of the rent for himself and a number of his colleagues. He would regularly withdraw cash to pay for three or four of the others officers rent as well as his own. However, from October 2006, Bramwell took an unauthorised step of paying for the rentals using his own personal Visa card, and then use the withdrawn cash towards his Visa bill.
Bramwell settled the last bill, for a total of £11,540.25, using his Visa card on 11 May 2007. That exact sum had been withdrawn in cash in two tranches on 30 April and 7 May. Once he had paid these bills, he had no further need to withdraw money from his Amex account. He was leaving Leeds and his last bill was paid.
However, on 23 May 2007, Bramwell withdrew £9774 (plus a fee of £171.05) and on 31 May 2007, he withdrew £1975.35 (plus a fee of £34.57).
In October 2007, having been asked to reconcile over £140,000 worth of expenditure, Bramwell supplied documentation to support his Amex payments. These included invoices relating to the money that he withdrew on 23 and 31 May, but no receipts to show the rent had been paid. According to the records of The Chambers, these invoices were, in fact, paid on 19 June 2007 in cash by a Detective Inspector.
Bramwell was found guilty on 22 November 2010 and sentenced on 5 January 2011 at Southwark Crown Court following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Directorate of Professional Standards, managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. He was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police Service following a misconduct hearing on Thursday 6 January 2011.
A Metropolitan Police Officer has been sentence to 12 months in prison and dismissed with immediate effect, after he was found guilty of fraud and false accounting in relation to almost £12,000.
Andrew Bramwell was a Detective Sergeant working in a team of officers sent to Leeds to investigate the suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July 2005.
In May 2006, the team was allocated accommodation in flats at a development called The Chambers, Riverside West in Leeds.
All the officers had American Express cards to use for travel and subsistence expenses while on duty. However, the management of The Chambers did not accept American Express due to the level of fees involved and so officers had to go to an American Express office in York to withdraw large amounts of cash to pay the rent.
Mr Bramwell took on much of the responsibility for the payment of the rent for himself and a number of his colleagues. He would regularly withdraw cash to pay for three or four of the others officers rent as well as his own. However, from October 2006, Bramwell took an unauthorised step of paying for the rentals using his own personal Visa card, and then use the withdrawn cash towards his Visa bill.
Bramwell settled the last bill, for a total of £11,540.25, using his Visa card on 11 May 2007. That exact sum had been withdrawn in cash in two tranches on 30 April and 7 May. Once he had paid these bills, he had no further need to withdraw money from his Amex account. He was leaving Leeds and his last bill was paid.
However, on 23 May 2007, Bramwell withdrew £9774 (plus a fee of £171.05) and on 31 May 2007, he withdrew £1975.35 (plus a fee of £34.57).
In October 2007, having been asked to reconcile over £140,000 worth of expenditure, Bramwell supplied documentation to support his Amex payments. These included invoices relating to the money that he withdrew on 23 and 31 May, but no receipts to show the rent had been paid. According to the records of The Chambers, these invoices were, in fact, paid on 19 June 2007 in cash by a Detective Inspector.
Bramwell was found guilty on 22 November 2010 and sentenced on 5 January 2011 at Southwark Crown Court following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Directorate of Professional Standards, managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. He was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police Service following a misconduct hearing on Thursday 6 January 2011.