The drug deal outside a Greater Manchester pub that led to police officer couple BOTH losing their jobs

A police officer has been sacked from Merseyside Police for 'turning a blind eye' to her boyfriend's cocaine use and taking the drug at least twice herself.

PC Chloe Fitton knew her then partner Jonathan Brown, who was also a police constable, was taking the drug regularly for at least a year, the Liverpool Echo reports. She told him 'I don’t want someone who sniffs beak' and rowed with him over finding 'bags of cocaine' in the home they shared with their baby.

Brown already resigned from the force after he was arrested outside a pub in Greater Manchester in possession of the Class A drug. Yesterday (September 21), Fitton was found guilty of gross misconduct after a misconduct hearing at Merseyside Police HQ.

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She declined to attend the hearing, according to her barrister, and did not give evidence in her defence. An independent panel, chaired by solicitor David Tyme, concluded that the account she had provided in interview and in written statements ahead of the hearing was 'manifestly inconsistent'.

He told the hearing the panel had found that she had taken the Class A drug herself on at least two occasions in June 2022, and had lied to social services on what she knew about the extent of her boyfriend's cocaine use. George Thomas, representing Merseyside Police, told the panel that the only 'appropriate sanction' given their findings of gross misconduct was to sack Fitton without notice.

Referring to her own drug use, he said: "That of course is tantamount to criminal