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Crimes committed by 46 West Midlands police officers

Assaults, drink driving and allowing dogs to worry sheep – almost 50 West Midlands police officers have been cautioned or convicted of criminal offences over the past three years.

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The list of 46 offenders include constables, special constables and sergeants.

A Freedom of Information Request to the force has also revealed what action the officers then faced in misconduct hearings.

They ranged from being dismissed to resigning and management action. Some are still yet to be dealt with.

Since 2014, 28 police officers have been dismissed.

Seven have resigned, while six faced management action or a written warning. With some case still ongoing.

The list includes Beth Walker who was sacked after she was caught on supermarket CCTV attacking her mother's love rival in the chiller aisle.

Pc Walker, who had worked in the response and neighbourhood policing teams in Birmingham city centre, was dismissed with immediate effect.

Pc Chris Blount is also among the offenders. He was dismissed after being caught drink driving.

The police officer, who had helped lead the force's crackdown on drink driving, was sacked after being convicted of the offence himself.

He was stopped on November 6 last year on the Black Country Route after patrolling officers spotted him 'struggling to control' his Vauxhall Mokka at 2.30am.

Magistrates in Wolverhampton fined him £1,425 and disqualified him from driving for two years after he admitted drink driving.

Police constable Benjamin Hughes, based in Wolverhampton, was sacked in July after stealing drugs from an evidence room.

Hughes, had pleaded guilty to one count of theft by an employee and one of possession of a class 'B' controlled drug, namely cannabis, before magistrates in Coventry.

The convictions and cautions for police officers on the list includes allowing dogs to worry sheep.

The police sergeant involved in the offence received 'management action'.

Three police staff were caught misusing computers, with all three resigning.

Among the ongoing cases, one police constable is yet to hear their fate after being convicted of dangerous driving.

Figures released in October showed that conducting probes into alleged police misconduct in the West Midlands took the force an average of 250 days to complete.