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A WALLET containing $285 handed in to the Katoomba police station in New South Wales was too tempting for Senior Constable Kate Michelle Howes to ignore - so she went shopping.
That mistake cost the 27-year-old officer her career.
Howes had no idea the lost wallet was a deftly targeted test of her integrity, orchestrated from within the NSW Police Force.
Her case is the only public evidence that the force still conducts integrity tests among its own ranks as part of its fight against corruption.
But the results of these tests, a good barometer of the clea... Read more
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Glasgow Sunday Mail - UK
16 March 2008
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Scotland: Police Officer Tries
A POLICE officer snapped after discovering her postman hubby was cheating - and tried to run over him and his lover.
WPC Sarah Brand, who now faces the sack, targeted love rat Colin, 37, and Gillian Baird, 39, after uncovering their affair.
The 36-year-old flew into a rage and mounted the pavement in her car, forcing the pair to leap to safety.
She also poured paint-stripper on Baird's red Audi and punctured all four tyres with a kitchen knife.
Brand is almost certain to lose her job after admitting the attacks as well as driving while drunk.
The love triangle has rocked the town of Haddington, East Lothian, where all three live.
A friend of the shamed officer, who had an unblemished 10-year record with Lothian and Borders police, said: "It's no excuse but she's gone through hell over the last two years. Everyone who knows her has seen it and has been worried sick.
"God knows how her employers didn't notice and help her more.
"Sarah is adamant this wasn't his first affair and in the end she kicked him out.
"All she wants is to get on with her life and get on with her job if that's possible."
Brand admitted five of nine charges - including reckless driving, vandalism and driving while drunk - at the town's sheriff court last week and faces dismissal from her job at Dunbar Police Station.
She realised last June that Colin was cheating with Baird, a nurse at Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital.
Brand sped to the couple's love nest armed with a kitchen knife and paint-stripper and slashed Baird's car tyres before pouring the solvent over the paintwork.
As the couple emerged from their hideaway, Brand leapt into her Rover and drove straight at her husband and his lover.
The pair were forced to leap to safety as the powerful car narrowly missed them. Brand fled the scene, but was later arrested by her own colleagues. After she pleaded guilty, Sheriff Peter Gillam fined her s1000 and banned her from driving for a year.
A neighbour, said: "It was quite a scene. Sarah had totally lost the plot and was acting like a mad person. It's not the sort of behaviour behaviour you expect to see from a police officer.
"When she jumped into the car and drove straight for them I thought they'd had it."
The WPC and the postman got married in February 2001 in Haddington. After the wedding, they set up home in the town and have two young children.
A force spokesman confirmed last night: "A police officer is the subject of an internal misconduct proceedings."
Speaking before the trial, Brand said: "I have two children to think about so am desperate to keep my job. I am liaising with the Police Federation to try and do this."
Her husband was unavailable for comment, while Ms Baird said: "I can't wait for the whole thing to be over so we can get on with our lives."
Brand lawyers struck a deal with the procurator fiscal to plead guilty to some charges in exchange for others to be dropped.
They include the allegation that she struggled violently with her own WPC colleagues Kelly Paton and Lindsay Boath as they tried to arrest her.
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