Friday, November 28, 2025 - A trainee police officer has been banned for life for passing information to her drug dealer boyfriend.
Ex-West Yorkshire Police officer Maryam Ilyas, 20,
accessed the force's computers to find confidential data and inform her
criminal boyfriend about an operation into him.
It was found that Ms Ilyas had used police computer systems
to search for details about the man on three occasions between March and May
2025.
Ms Ilyas resigned ahead of her disciplinary hearing
yesterday, but the panel ruled that she would have otherwise been fired.
Her links to the man were identified when he was arrested in
June, with officers finding messages between the pair, including pictures of
money and chats about drugs.
The hearing was told that Ms Ilyas failed to notify the
force of her relationship with the man when she was recruited in June 2024,
and in January, she told investigators she was 'unaware of his criminal
history'.
Catherine Hankinson, the force's former deputy chief
constable, ruled that messages indicated an 'existing relationship' up to
July 2025.
She said the officer's conduct had been 'repeated',
'sustained' and 'intentional'.
The public rightly expect police officers to act with
honesty and integrity,' Ms Hankinson said.
'The vast majority of officers in West Yorkshire Police do
uphold those high standards.
The conduct of the former officer does a disservice to
the public and to her colleagues.'
Ms Ilyas admitted the allegations, including failing to
declare the relationship on her vetting form and was found to have
committed gross misconduct.
Before the hearing, she had tried to deny wrongdoing,
telling The Sun: 'I was a student officer.
'I was really new to all this and I feel like I was expected
to know everything straight away.'
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