Jon Boutcher apologises after officers watch drugs arrest footage

The footage showed a person being arrested for the possession of illegal drugs.

During the incident, an officer made a mistake in administering a criminal caution, “causing a colleague to laugh in the background”.

The Police Ombudman’s investigation found that the footage was accessed largely “without legitimate purpose” at 20 police stations on 248 occasions between 2019 and 2022, including one officer who watched it 21 times.