Suspended: PC Arun Ghir
PC Arun Ghir has been immediately suspended from duty pending an inquiry after he took the law into his owns hands.
Louise Harwood met her boyfriend Art Minshull in Egypt. She was travelling and he was on holiday. The couple wanted to help their new friend, a woman from Darfur, with her young son to safety – Art illegally brought them into Britain in the trailer of his truck.
Ghir sympathised with Louise: Art had been beaten up trying to protect them. So when he found out the location of the trailer with their immigrant friends trapped inside, Ghir tipped off Louise so she could recover them before the police did.
Smithy interviewed Ghir only to have his suspicions confirmed, he had lied, hidden CCTV evidence to cover his tracks and importantly, didn’t see that he had done anything wrong. Smithy relived Ghir of duty on the same shift.