Former Leicestershire Police special officer handed community order after making indecent images of kids
A former special constable working for Leicestershire Police has been handed a two-year community order after admitting to making indecent images of children.
Jamie Wallace, 21, of Leicestershire, was added to the sex offenders register for five years after appearing at Leicester Crown Court yesterday (Wednesday).
He pleaded guilty to the charges at Leicester Magistrates Court in April.
Wallace was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years, ordered to do 70 hours of unpaid work, pay £150 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.
He was arrested in October 2023 and was a serving Special Police Constable at the time.
Two mobile phones were seized and forensic analysis found Wallace had downloaded indecent images. There were 122 Category A images – the most serious type, 217 Category B images and 112 Category C images. The images are categorised based on the seriousness of them with
Investigators revealed Wallace’s offending took place between December 2018 and October 2023.
Chief Constable David Sandall said: “This offending is horrific. It is the work of our force’s online abuse team which ensured Wallace was arrested, that a full investigation was carried out and that he was left with no other option but to plead guilty in court. I am grateful to the team for the action they took and for their hard work to establish the full circumstances of this offending and which led to this conviction.
“We will never tolerate this offending in our force. Wallace was suspended from the force following his arrest and later resigned. A gross misconduct hearing in July 2024 found that he would have been dismissed without notice had he still been serving.”