A former police officer has been found guilty of five counts of sexual assault and 15 counts of misconduct in a public office.

The charges relating to PC Adnan Ali relate to incidents between 2015 and 2019, involving young men and women on Greater Manchester Police’s Volunteer Police Cadet Scheme.

Ali was arrested and suspended in October 2018, after Greater Manchester Police (GMP) received a complaint that he had been behaving inappropriately towards a 16-year-old boy, the court was told.

Following the charges, GMP said it was continuing action to “ensure predatory employees are rooted and booted out”.

Electronic devices were seized upon his arrest, with officers uncovering thousands of messages and identifying further victims whose evidence was used to secure the charges which were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service in July 2021.

Though Ali will be sentenced at a later date, Greater Manchester Police’s Chief Constable dismissed Ali and ordered that he be barred from policing, when gross misconduct was proven in April 2022.

Following today’s conviction, the force will suggest to the Deputy Mayor that Ali should be ordered to forfeit his pension.

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