GMP detective arrested after he's caught out on daughter's school's CCTV footage

A Greater Manchester Police detective was arrested after he accidentally dropped a drug wrap in the grounds of his daughter's primary school, a trial heard.

When the school’s CCTV system showed the small snap bag falling from Andrew Talbot’s back pocket it was seized by his employers, a jury at Liverpool Crown Court was told.

After analysis found it to hold a small amount of cocaine, Talbot was arrested when he arrived for work at Nexus House, the base for GMP's serious and organised crime squad in Ashton, on February 17, 2020.

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Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday (Tuesday) that subsequent investigations revealed that he had stolen four kilos of cocaine from a vault in a police evidence store and had searched the police computer systems for local known or suspected drug dealers.

James Lake, prosecuting, said: "The Crown say the inescapable and common sense conclusion to draw is he was looking for an outlet for the cocaine he was stealing."

Mr Lake told the jury that 54-year-old Talbot admits stealing the cocaine and accessing the computer system to search for known or suspected drug dealers in his local area. He has also admitted conspiring with convicted drug dealer Keith Bretherton to misconduct himself by using his position as a GMP officer to help him recover a drug debt.

The prosecutor said that Talbot has also pleaded guilty accessing the GMP computer systems to provide information to a close friend who was being investigated for assault. Talbot, of Findlay Street, Leigh, however denies supplying the 3.94 kilos of cocaine between February 13, 2018 and January 21, 2020.

He also denies misconduct in public office by