The officer, whose name was kept anonymous, was dismissed after her “failure to complete basic tasks” potentially put one man at risk of harm
A Metropolitan Police officer who faked a signature on a witness statement has been sacked for gross misconduct.
A serving officer with four years’ experience in the Met, named only as ‘Officer A’ was dismissed last week (June 24) for breaching standards of honesty and undermining police investigations through a “failure to complete basic tasks”, which potentially put one man in harm’s way.
A police misconduct panel found that in March 17, 2024, during a callout for a reported domestic incident, the former officer used her own signature in the name of a witness, AP, after she failed to get it from the woman herself.
Though she denied it, at least two of her colleagues at Islington Police Station reported seeing a blank signature box on the paperwork. The Met’s record-keeping software prevented any witness statement from being submitted without a filled-in signature.
One police officer said they heard Officer A say at the station that she had “lost” a signature, only to later “cheerfully” say she had fixed it, adding: “I remember what the signature looked like.”
When officers visited AP on June 14, 2024, she denied having ever signed her witness statement. Officer A continued to deny signing it in AP’s name.
However, in a later statement she claimed that if she had done so, it “could only have been” if she and AP had thought it was signed but a technical glitch had caused the electronic statement “not to be actually signed”.
She added that if this were the case, it was thought to be better to rectify this by adding a signature instead of “further troubling a vulnerable witness by going back to them”. Officer A later distanced herself from these words, saying her lawyers had pressured her to make this statement.
The panel was unconvinced, and found she had acted dishonestly and in a way that was “fundamentally” incompatible with the behaviour of a serving police officer.
“She would instinctively know that it would be wrong to sign a witness statement in the name of another person,” the panel’s report stated.
This was the second incident in which Officer A was called out for her dishonesty. A few days before the signature incident, a man came to the police station to report a death threat. In response, the officer’s Sergeant said Officer A had to carry out intelligence checks on two men before escalating it to the Inspector.
But she went straight to the Inspector without doing so, and when asked by him she said she had performed the checks. When questioned again later, Officer A said she was “99.9% certain” she had.
The misconduct panel also criticised the officer for shredding her own notes of the alleged crime – despite her knowing the police database was unreliable. This left the team without an audit trail.
The investigation concluded that Officer A knew she had not done the checks that day “at all”, and that she was dishonest and lacked integrity in claiming she had. The Met dismissed her without notice after the misconduct hearing concluded on June 3, 2026.
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