Undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of former Metropolitan Police officer Kashif Mahmood who has been jailed for eight years after he used his position to help an organised gang seize money from criminals. Issue date: Thursday May 13, A former Metropolitan Police officer who used his position to help an organised gang seize money from other criminals has been jailed for eight years. Kashif Mahmood, 32, of Woodcroft, in Harlow, Essex, dressed in his uniform and used marked and unmarked police cars to travel to locations where the gang knew “significant quantities of criminal cash” would be exchanged, and took it himself while pretending to be doing his duties.
Undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of former Metropolitan Police officer Kashif Mahmood who has been jailed for eight years after he used his position to help an organised gang seize money from criminals. Issue date: Thursday May 13, A former Metropolitan Police officer who used his position to help an organised gang seize money from other criminals has been jailed for eight years. Kashif Mahmood, 32, of Woodcroft, in Harlow, Essex, dressed in his uniform and used marked and unmarked police cars to travel to locations where the gang knew “significant quantities of criminal cash” would be exchanged, and took it himself while pretending to be doing his duties.
Judge Tomlinson said the group put criminal couriers in harm’s way, as they would not have been able to explain to their bosses how the money had been seized.
Mitigating, William Emlyn Jones told Southwark Crown Court on Thursday: “He accepts that this is no one’s fault but his own. It is his own fault he has lost his good character and his hard-earned reputation.”
A box of cash seized from the home of Ioan Gherghel in Maryland. In total £11,385 was seized from this address.
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He said Mahmood achieved his “boyhood dream” of becoming a police officer at the age of 21, despite having a “challenging” childhood during which he was stabbed when he refused to join a neighbourhood gang.
Kashif Mahmood
A former Metropolitan Police officer who seized at least £850,000 in “criminal cash” under the pretence of doing his job has been jailed for eight years.
Kashif Mahmood, 32, of Woodcroft, in Harlow, Essex, dressed in his uniform and used marked and unmarked police cars to travel to locations where an organised gang knew “significant quantities of criminal cash” would be exchanged, and took it himself while pretending to be doing his duties.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) called Mahmood “audacious, corrupt and criminal”.
Director of major investigations Steve Noonan said: “His actions were a complete betrayal of public trust and confidence, and have no place in policing.”