A policeman became the center of a controversy after he charged himself with rape, accidentally. He entered his name on the force computer by mistake and ended up sending it to court. Reports say the custody sergeant is understood to have been practising on the system when he joined a new force and did not even realise that it was live.
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Daily Star reported that the cop accidentally created a custody report of his own name and added a rape charge before sending it to court. Things took a turn for the worse as he failed to appear before magistrates. After this, a warrant was reportedly issued for his arrest. This fiasco was revealed on the Facebook page of UK Cop Humour.
The unidentified cop was part of a long list of officers who mistakenly gave themselves criminal records using the police database. This was posted in the month of September, which began getting responses with people even?saying that there was an officer who filed out the register in the mortuary with his own name.