A Metropolitan Police officer who faked a signature on a witness statement has been sacked for gross misconduct. The officer, identified only as 'Officer A', was dismissed on June 24, 2026, after a misconduct panel found her actions breached standards of honesty and undermined police investigations.
Incident Details
On March 17, 2024, during a callout for a reported domestic incident, Officer A used her own signature in place of a witness identified as AP, after failing to obtain the witness's signature. At least two colleagues at Islington Police Station reported seeing a blank signature box on the paperwork. The Met's record-keeping software required a signature for submission.
One officer heard Officer A say she had "lost" a signature, later "cheerfully" claiming she had fixed it, adding: "I remember what the signature looked like." When officers visited AP on June 14, 2024, AP denied signing the statement. Officer A initially denied signing, but later suggested a technical glitch might have caused the statement to appear unsigned, and that adding a signature avoided troubling a vulnerable witness. She later distanced herself from that explanation, saying her lawyers pressured her.
Misconduct Findings
The panel found she acted dishonestly and in a way "fundamentally incompatible" with police conduct. "She would instinctively know that it would be wrong to sign a witness statement in the name of another person," the panel's report stated.
This was the second dishonesty incident. Days earlier, a man reported a death threat at the station. Officer A's sergeant instructed her to conduct intelligence checks on two men before escalating to the Inspector, but she went directly to the Inspector without performing the checks and claimed she had done so. When questioned, she said she was "99.9% certain" she had performed them.
Additional Misconduct
The panel also criticised Officer A for shredding her own notes of the alleged crime, despite knowing the police database was unreliable, leaving no audit trail. The investigation concluded she knew she had not done the checks at all, showing dishonesty and lack of integrity.
The Met dismissed her without notice after the misconduct hearing concluded on June 3, 2026. The officer had four years of service in the Metropolitan Police.
