Former police employee imprisoned for stealing money from evidence locker

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has reported that a former West Yorkshire Police employee, Andrew Roberts, has been imprisoned for four years for seven counts of fraud by abusing his position and stealing property from the Huddersfield police station’s evidence locker. This included money seized from arrested people, but also money taken from an elderly lady for safekeeping. According to the CPS, Roberts abused his position and ignored his duty to ensure that all property received at the police station was recorded, kept safe and properly accounted for, to steal £100,000 in cash from the evidence store over a five-year period. On 13 January 2023 the CPS secured a Confiscation Order for £59,816.28 against Roberts, after the Judge determined that his total criminal benefit was £166,824.16 and that he had £59,816.28 available assets to pay his order.