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A police officer caught with cocaine has quit his job to avoid being kicked off the force.
Trainee Alex Jones was found with the class A drug on a night out in Haverfordwest, in Pembrokeshire.
Undercover officers arrested the 24-year-old after spotting him holding a bag of white powder and a credit card.
A misconduct hearing on Thursday was told the South Wales Police PC’s behaviour amounted to gross misconduct and he was banned from policing.
After his arrest, at 23:50 BST on 11 November 2023, he was taken to Cardigan police station, in Ceredigion, for questioning.
The hearing, at South Wales Police headquarters in Bridgend, was told a friend of Mr Jones’, from Carmarthenshire, had bought the cocaine that night, but the off-duty officer did not intervene to stop them.
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