PC 'checked on ex partners' on Thames Valley computer Published duration 4 May 2018

A police officer who used a work computer system to carry out checks on people seeing his former partners would have been sacked had he not already retired, a hearing has found.

The officer misused a "national police computer" and Thames Valley Police's "niche database" to gather information between 3 January and 14 October 2015.

The force said his actions amounted to "gross misconduct".

The un-named officer retired three days before the hearing.

The force said the officer had breached the "standards of professional behaviour" at a hearing before Chief Constable Francis Habgood on Thursday.

Deputy Chief Constable John Campbell said: "The former officer would have been dismissed had he still been serving.