A shamed police officer who stole cash during a house search is facing a return to prison for taking a suspect’s iPhone.
Former PC Ian Scouler was jailed for 12 months last November after being secretly filmed pocketing £400 while on duty in 2011.
But Scouler was back in court today to admit stealing a suspect’s iPhone and another handset while employed by the Metropolitan Police.
The former cop – who walked into Westminster Magistrates Court after being released from his prison sentence – was warned he now faces a swift return to jail.
He pocketed an iPhone after it was seized during the search of a suspect’s home on October 28, 2010.
‘At the time this theft occurred, Mr Scouler was a serving police officer with the Met,’ said prosecutor Emma Scheer.
‘When officers went to restore the property to its owner, they found some of the items were missing.
‘The iPhone was found to have been sold by Scouler shortly after the date of the search.’
Scouler had set up an account under his own name at website fonebank.com to sell on the stolen handset.
He admitted selling the phone but initially tried to pin the blame on one of his fellow officers.
‘He said he didn’t in fact take the iPhone but it was given to him by a colleague and had no idea that phone was stolen’, said Ms Scheer.
Investigators also discovered he had stolen another phone in May 2010 which had been handed in to police.
He again sold it online, but was ‘very vague’ when investigators asked where he had got it from, the court heard.
Scouler’s career was destroyed when a jury at Southwark Crown Court found him guilty of theft following a trial.
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19/07/2016
IAN SCOULERI wonder if it would be possible for you to deal with my query or pass it to the relevant department for me?
I wish to politely request that the page http://www.exposedpolice.com/police-officer-ian-scouler-steals-iphone-during-house-search/ and any other similar linked pages concerning the finale of my police career be removed.
These incidents took place over 2011/2012 and in my opinion are now ‘old news’ and not relevant to anyone now.
I am trying to move on and the convictions are considered ‘spent’ but most employers will always Google search on any applicants’ name and this is where I am finding extreme difficulty.
Yours and most other reports are factually incorrect and slanderous in some respects. The online articles serve no purpose today, other than to cause me personal harm.
I have sought legal advice and it is possible that these articles may now after such time, be causing a breach of my human rights.
I would therefore be very grateful if you could remove any articles concerning myself and the Met police from your online pages and keep me updated.
The following is taken from google;
The recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the decision on the right to be forgotten has profound consequences for search engines in Europe. The court found that certain users have the right to ask search engines like Google to remove results for queries that include the person’s name. To qualify, the results shown would need to be inadequate, irrelevant, no longer relevant, or excessive.
Since this ruling was published on 13 May 2014, we’ve been working around the clock to comply. This is a complicated process because we need to assess each individual request and balance the rights of the individual to control his or her personal data with the public’s right to know and distribute information.
As stated, I feel this is now no longer relevant.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Kind regards
Ian Scouler
03/09/2016
Exposed PolicePC Ian Scouler we will not be removing this post from our exposed police misconduct news website. The fact that you see this serious allegation as “spent”, “no longer relevant”, “slanderous” and “online articles serve no purpose today, other than to cause me personal harm” is one of the reasons why we started this website to exposed corrupt police officers such as yourself… We are sorry to hear that you are having difficulties finding employment but the fact that you were convicted and sent to jail for pocketing cash and stealing an iPhone will not be forgotten and the public deserve to know what a corrupt crook ex police officer you really are!