A trainee police officer has been permanently banned from the profession after using work computers to pass information to her boyfriend while he was being investigated.

Maryam Ilyas, 20, a former West Yorkshire Police officer, ‘accessed and shared police data inappropriately’ with her drug dealer boyfriend, a disciplinary hearing found.

She used police computers to search for details about him on three occasions between March and May 2025.

Ms Ilyas resigned before her misconduct hearing, which ruled that she would have been sacked if she had stayed on the force.

Her links to the man, named only as Mr J, were identified when he was arrested in June.

Officers found messages between the pair – including pictures of money and conversations about drugs.

But Ms Ilyas denied any wrongdoing

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