A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of stealing from dead victims of crime.
PC Richard Bent, 28, who serves with the Metropolitan Police, was held as detectives investigated a series of high value thefts, including money and jewellery worth thousands of pounds.
Police are also said to be investigating the theft of goods from the officer’s central London police station in Westminster.
Fellow officers discovered the expensive items during a raid on his £350,000 flat.
PC Bent has been suspended by the force while an investigation takes place.
The £35,000-a-year policeman lives in Wandsworth, South West London was an officer Westminster police station at until he was suspended on July 14
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: ‘Officers from the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards arrested a male police officer on 13 July on suspicion of theft from the MPS.
‘He was subsequently arrested in connection with a further count of theft.
‘He was taken into custody at a south London police station and subsequently bailed to return on a date in mid-October, pending further investigation.’
The Westminster-based officer was suspended from duty on July 14, the force said.
