Former Dorset police officer jailed for nine months

A former Dorset police officer has been jailed for nine months for harassment and data protection offences.

Former Police Constable Allan Christopher Smith, of Bovington, was sentenced at Dorchester Crown Court today, Friday 10 July 2015, for multiple harassment with fear of violence offences and obtaining and disclosing confidential police information.

The 54-year-old was sentenced to nine months for one count of harassment, three months imprisonment for obtaining or disclosing police information and two months imprisonment for a second data protection offence. The judge ordered that the prison sentences are to run concurrently.

Smith was also issued with an indefinite restraining order preventing him from contacting his victim.