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A 'curious' police officer secretly rifled through confidential systems, a disciplinary hearing has been told.

'Experienced' former Detective Constable Keeling made a number of checks which she should 'never have undertaken'.

She showed a 'blatant disregard' for rules she should have been following and had 'no right' to access the data stored by West Midlands Police .

Keeling 'knew perfectly well what she was doing' but made 'many repeated conscious choices to act in the way she did'.

The ex-officer was found to have breached policing standards of professional behaviour, with a panel finding that her actions amounted to gross misconduct.

She would have been dismissed had she still been working for the force, an accelerated misconduct hearing found.

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