A married police chief who breached Covid guidelines to have sex with a glamorous rookie police officer under his command resigned ahead of his misconduct hearing Wednesday.
Chief Superintendent Daniel Greenwood, 41, abused his position by striking up an illicit relationship with student officer Caitlin Howarth.
Greenwood, Bradford’s district commander, swapped flirtatious texts and sexually explicit pictures with the university graduate, 17 years his junior.
He resigned Tuesday from his 20-year career ahead of his police misconduct hearing –Â on the same day criminal misconduct charges were dropped against Howarth.
She was alleged to have failed to report links to Joseph Shaw, a convicted drug dealer who once appeared on Channel 4’s First Dates.
Howarth, who resigned the force, remains subject to a misconduct investigation over the affair.
Greenwood’s disciplinary hearing heard today that the district commander abused his position and exploited the age gap having helped her join West Yorkshire Police aged 20.
The ‘obviously inappropriate’ fling between the pair caused ‘tittle-tattle and gossip in the ranks’.
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At a hearing in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, a panel was told how Greenwood twice had sex with the young woman after he successfully helped her apply for a job.
But when the affair came to light in November 2021, Greenwood attempted to perform a factory reset on his iPhone to conceal the evidence.
In an opening address, in which Ms Howarth was referred to as Miss A, Mr Beggs said: ‘Greenwood’s conduct towards Miss A over the period…amounts to an abuse of position for a sexual purpose.
