Four police staff members have been dismissed and added to the policing barred list as part of our Anti-Corruption Unit’s proactive investigation into abnormal key stroke behaviour – or ‘key jamming’ – on GMP-issued devices.
They were staff members from a range of departments and were each found to have spent thousands of minutes purporting to be actively working when they were not.
An additional two staff members have already resigned, and further hearings will continue into the New Year.
They are all part of a total of 28 officers, staff and contractors who have been served misconduct papers so far since September 2025.
This has gone up from 26 when we first publicised this operation in October, and our Anti-Corruption team is continuing to take action against anyone who is ‘key jamming’ in the organisation.
This operation is the latest ongoing example of our Professional Standards Directorate taking a front-footed proactive approach to ‘rooting out’ poor quality, standards and behaviour and to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the force.
Deputy Chief Constable Terry Woods said: “I’m grateful to the work of the Anti-Corruption Unit for conducting this proactive operation to root out poor performance, dishonesty and conduct that is just not conducive with working for GMP.
“This work is doing a great service to the public and our workforce to ensure that the people of GM can have confidence that their police force will not stand for the tiny minority that reflect badly on the thousands of decent hard-working that serve the public so brilliantly every day.
“We’re prepared to lead the way in proactively tackling police corruption and misconduct. As these recent proactive investigations demonstrate, the Chief and I mean it when we say we’re serious about ‘rooting out’ and ‘booting out’.”
