Cop hid cash under fleece

A Met Police officer who swiped £1,500 from a police station safe to settle his credit card debt was jailed for ten months. Bradley Francis, 35, was caught on CCTV removing the cash from the safe and placing it under a fleece at Stoke Newington Police Station in north London on 12 May this year. Gregor McKinley, prosecuting, said the officer’s colleagues had placed the money into the safe on 7 April. ‘When the officers involved went to retrieve the…