An “arrogant” police constable who had sex sessions while on duty with a vulnerable young woman has been warned to expect a lengthy jail sentence. Shamraze Arshad, who lives in Bolton and was an officer with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), looked shocked this afternoon, Thursday, when a jury unanimously convicted him of misconduct in public office. The jury of three women and nine men took just 75 minutes to find him guilty and the 38-year-old shook his head in the dock and repeatedly muttered, "Oh my God" under his breath.
During the four-day trial, Liverpool Crown Court heard that Arshad, a father-of-two, met the 21-year-old after he and a colleague were called out to her student accommodation in Fallowfield on October 28, 2020, when she was suicidal. He submitted a care plan for her after she was taken to hospital and having finished his shift “that should have been the end of the matter” said Jamie Baxter, prosecuting. But later that morning while off duty he used his police mobile to find her personal details and began calling her just hours after she had been taken to hospital.
Mr Baxter said: “In the days that followed he began asking her to go on a date and over the weeks and months thereafter his contact with her continued and what resulted is that the defendant, a serving police officer, began an intimate and ultimately sexual relationship with this vulnerable young woman whom he met in crisis. “Far detached from the knight in shining armour she initial.