Maryam Ilyas, a former trainee officer for West Yorkshire Police, was dismissed after it was found she passed confidential law enforcement information on to her drug dealer boyfriend, British media reported last week.
Ilyas was said to have accessed confidential data on an operation involving the boyfriend’s criminal activities and to have given the information to him.
Using the police computer systems, the 20-year-old trainee searched for information on her partner, his family and his criminal associates between March and May 2025.
Ilyas resigned ahead of a disciplinary hearing this week but would have otherwise been sacked, the misconduct panel ruled.
Police uncovered Ilyas’s activities when they arrested her boyfriend in July and discovered text messages between them, including photos of money and conversations about illicit substances.
West Yorkshire police discover cop gave secrets to criminal boyfriend
During the search of the boyfriend’s devices, they also found that Ilyas warned her partner about a plain-clothes operation and showed him his profile on the force’s system.
Ilyas reportedly failed to notify the police of her relationship with her boyfriend when she joined the force in June 2024, and claimed in January 2025 that she was “unaware of his criminal history.”
Catherine Hankinson, the former deputy chief constable and panel chair, said, “The public rightly expect police officers to act with honesty and integrity.
“The vast majority of officers in West Yorkshire Police do uphold those high standards. The conduct of the former officer does a disservice to the public and to her colleagues.”
Ilyas admitted to the accusations but told The Sun, “I was a student officer. I was really new to all this, and I feel like I was expected to know everything straight away.”