{"id":7740,"date":"2015-09-11T09:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/police-kidnap-plot\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:32:44","slug":"police-kidnap-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/police-kidnap-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Kidnap Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Three Charged Over Incident <\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Police-Kidnap-Hoax-2015-447x311.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Three men, including a Birmingham Police officer, have been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>PC Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, a 29-year-old working for Birmingham West &amp; Central police unit, was charged with two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and two counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office. He has been suspended from duty with immediate effect.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Two other men have also been charged with the same four offences. They are 25-year-old Adil Bashir, who is unemployed and from Small Heath, and 30-year-old Muhammad Sheikh, a self-employed tutor from Bordesley Green.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>All have been released on police bail to appear at Cannock Magistrates Court on 7 October 2015.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The arrests follow an investigation into false and malicious information given to West Midlands Police on 8 December 2014 in which it was claimed an officer was to be kidnapped as part of a terrorist plot.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>At a time when the national threat level was severe, the threat was considered credible and police acted swiftly to protect officers and police staff &#8211; but an investigation revealed the call was false and malicious. A 31-year-old man arrested on the day of the offence was eliminated from enquiries and has since been deported by Border Officials.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The investigation is being led by officers from West Midland Police\u2019s Anti-Corruption Unit\u00a0with support from the Counter Terrorism Unit.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Charged Over Incident &#13; Three men, including a Birmingham Police officer, have been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; PC Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, a 29-year-old working for Birmingham West &amp; Central police unit, was charged with two counts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}