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Senior counter terrorism police officer admits leaving confidential documents in car for five days before they were stolen | Senior counter terrorism police officer admits leaving confidential documents in car for five days before they were stolen |
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Senior West Midlands police officer Marcus Beale has admitted leaving confidential documents in a car four or five days before they were stolen. | |
Mr Beale, 54, who was the counter terrorism lead for West Midlands police, put the papers in a locked case in an unmarked police car. | |
The case and other personal items were stolen from the vehicle in May. | |
Mr Beale was suspended from duty and appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, where he admitted the charge of failing to safeguard information under the Official Secrets Act. | |
He joined West Midlands police in 2011 and held West Midlands Police’s security portfolio, with responsibility for the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. | |
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