Crooked cop avoids jail sentence because prisons are too crowded

A cop who used the police database to pass on information to friends involved in ongoing investigations has been spared jail by a judge because prisons are too overcrowded. PC Mohammed Rahman, 39, made a series of unauthorised searches over a period of three years from 2018 to 2021. He looked up the names, address, and dates of births of suspects and victims involved in ongoing investigations he had nothing to do with. Some of these searches included the names…