Police man facing jail over corruption

A Metropolitan police officer is facing jail after being found guilty of being at the centre of an “extremely dangerous conspiracy”.

Pc Mark Bohannan, a field intelligence officer with the Metropolitan Police’s Territorial Support Group, passed confidential information to his cocaine-taking wife Denise and her drug dealer in return for free drugs and money.

The officer, who had 25 years’ experience, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office and will be sentenced by judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith at London’s Southwark Crown Court.

The jury found he deliberately passed information to drug dealer Syed Imtiaz Ahmed that allowed him to continue his large-scale drug-dealing “undetected and unpunished”.

Bohannan carried out searches of confidential police systems after being “tasked” to do so by the dealer, “deliberately passing information to Syed Ahmed in return for free drugs and for money”, prosecutors said.

He also failed to input intelligence he gained about Ahmed on to the police system.
The corrupt officer previously admitted his actions “compromised” police investigations as he passed information to his wife Denise, used her as an informant without telling his colleagues, and failed to report her possession of class A drugs.

His wife, who lives with him in Chapel Road, Bexleyheath, was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office and will also be sentenced today.

David Durose, prosecuting, told the jury the couple, who have been married for 21 years, had a “corrupt” relationship with Ahmed, who was the “co-ordinator of a drugs organisation responsible for the supply of cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis over a period of many years”.

Michael Bromley-Martin, defending Mark Bohannan, conceded a sentence of immediate imprisonment was “inevitable” in his client’s case.