PC Usman Ahmed resigned before the misconduct hearing where bosses determined he committed gross misconduct during multiple shifts where he was meant to have been working
Damning video footage captured the moment a disgraced police officer engaged in “acts of a sexual nature” while on duty.
The ex-Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer PC Usman Ahmed committed gross misconduct, bosses said. It came after footage revealed he engaged in “sexual acts while on duty in a police vehicle and a police station.”
Ahmed resigned before the misconduct hearing at GMP headquarters on February 6. Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson reviewed evidence of “various breaches of the standards of professional behaviour.”
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These included “three distinct items of video footage” of incidents between January 15 and June, 2025. In police documents, Sir Stephen said: “Taken together, [the items] reveal incontrovertible evidence to show that Mr Ahmed wilfully engaged in consensual acts of a sexual nature.
“Such acts occurred whilst on duty both in a police vehicle and on one occasion within a police station. His conduct was persistent, repeated and occurred over a protracted period of Mr Ahmed knew or ought to have known that his conduct was reprehensible, professionally indefensible and contrary to the standards and values of the force.”
The ex-officer “provided no indication as to whether or not he accepts the allegations of misconduct made against him,” the report added. The chief constable assessed if the evidence breached the standards of professional behaviour, reports The Manchester Evening News.
He said: “I have determined that the proven breaches are sufficiently serious to justify dismissal thus I have found that they constitute gross misconduct. I have already pointed to the fact that the misconduct was deliberate and unforced.
“By definition, the breach clearly implies a significant deviation from that properly expected of a well conducted officer. That multiple breaches of the standards of professional behaviour have occurred, as opposed to a single isolated incident, constitutes an additional aggravating feature.
“I consider that it would be inevitable that Mr Ahmed’s conduct and actions would bring the profession into disrepute and damage the trust that the public have a right to expect of their police.”
The chief constable admitted a “cumulative impact of similar cases which has, and continue, to cause widespread concern as to the standards of conduct amongst police officers more generally.” Sir Stephen said he was “unable to identify any mitigation whatsoever” in Mr Ahmed’s case, with the findings having the “grave potential to substantially diminish public confidence.”
In a damning conclusion, he added: “Mr Ahmed’s conduct in this matter clearly falls far below the behaviours and standards that the public have every right to expect. He has, on multiple counts, demonstrably breached the standards of professional behaviour.
“That he has failed to express any form of apology to the public and his colleagues; together with a broader failure to engage with these proceedings does Mr Ahmed no credit at all. This episode reveals a lack of the moral fibre, professionalism and personal discipline required to retain the office of constable.
“I consider that the maintenance of public confidence is likely incompatible with retaining the services of Mr Ahmed in any capacity. I have determined that had Mr Ahmed not resigned, I would have dismissed him from the service with immediate effect.
“I order that Mr Ahmed’s name be added to the College of Policing’s Barred List.”
