Maryam Ilyas is reported to have shared information with her partner, including intel on a plain-clothes operation, after failing to declare that she was in a relationship with him
A trainee cop has reportedly been banned from the police for life after giving her drug-dealer boyfriend inside intel. PC Maryam Ilyas, 20, used police computers to share confidential data with her partner – including information about an undercover operation.
The 20-year-old also shared pictures of an op, and accessed records about her boyfriend and his family and associates, as well as lying about the relationship when she was caught.
She resigned ahead of a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday, with the misconduct panel ruling she would otherwise have been sacked.
Ilyas was caught in July, when cops arrested her boyfriend – known only as Mr J – and found messages on his phone including chats about drugs and pictures of cash, reports the Sun.
She told cops they had split in January and she didn’t know about his criminal past – but the panel found she had continued messaging him until the month of his arrest.
Ilyas, from Leeds, later admitted the allegations including failing to declare the relationship on her vetting form in June 2024. She was found to have committed gross misconduct.
Panel chair Catherine Hankinson said: “The public rightly expect police officers to act with honesty and integrity. The vast majority of officers in West Yorkshire Police do uphold those high standards. The conduct of the former officer does a disservice to the public and to her colleagues.”
Ilyas told The Sun before the hearing: “I was a student officer. I was really new to all this and I feel like I was expected to know everything straight away.”
Meanwhile, the National Crime Agency (NCA) last week warned that Brits buying cocaine on a weekend night out could be funding the Russian war effort in Ukraine.
The NCA said a billion-pound money laundering operation active in the UK is bankrolling Vladimir Putin’s war machine, as well as Russian espionage activities.
The vast money-laundering network is so rich it bought a bank in Kyrgyzstan to finance Russia’s military activities. The international scheme, headquartered in Moscow, connects Brits “buying cocaine on a Friday night” to the “highest levels of organised crime ” and the “Russian industrial military complex”, according to revelations from the NCA.
The network accepts dirty money from criminal gangs for a fee, converting it into untraceable cryptocurrency, thereby concealing illicit profits from law enforcement.
The NCA said the Russian state has utilised this network to fund espionage activities, including a coastal spy ring that was imprisoned earlier this year.
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