A police worker has been accused of repeatedly breaching data protection rules and tipping-off a drug dealer about an investigation into her activities.
Gary Moran, 40, is alleged to have accessed Police Scotland’s computer system without good reason on occasions over a period of three years.
Moran, whose address was given as c/o Professional Standards, Dundee, faces a total of ten charges in a case which called at the city’s sheriff court.
The first charge alleges he breached data protection rules on October 21 2021 by “knowingly or recklessly disclosing personal data to another person without a policing purpose.”
It is alleged Moran accessed files and passed on information in an identical manner on March 29 and July 28 2022, October 20 2023, and January 6, May 10, June 5, and August 23 2024.
In each of those charges he is alleged to have gone into the force’s STORM (System for Tasking and Operational Resource Management) system and taken information to pass on from different named files.
Further allegations
The June 5 allegation relates to three separate reports and it is claimed Moran passed information to a drug-dealer later the same day.
It is alleged he disclosed “sensitive police information to another, with the purpose of warning Heather Brown that her drug-dealing activities had been reported to the police”.
That charge alleges he did so in a bid to defeat the ends of justice.
A further charge alleges that between May 1 and 3 2024 he viewed an iVPD (Interim Vulnerable Persons Database) record and E-Briefing entries relating to a prisoner and disclosed information to another without a policing purpose.
Moran was not present in court and solicitor David Duncan, defending, asked for a hearing to be fixed at a later date.
The case was continued without plea to a case management hearing next month by Sheriff Neil Kinnear.
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