PC sacked after speeding in marked police car

A police officer has been sacked for driving in excess of the speed limit on multiple occasions.

PC Harry Croot was found to have driven marked police vehicles at speed in May, June and July last year.

Essex Police said he held a "basic" police permit and was driving "beyond his training and skills".

Mr Croot was dismissed by the force after he was found to have committed gross misconduct.

He was not authorised to use exemptions to speed limits afforded to officers responding to emergencies, police said.

Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said: "PC Croot had not completed any of this training and was therefore neither authorised nor safe and, as such, he put himself and the public at risk."

Mr Harrington added the public expected those who drove at excess speeds would be "properly trained" to do so.

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