Top detective fined after being caught on film using mobile phone while driving
Detective Constable Rod Carter fined after Greater Manchester Police launched probe in wake of clip appearing on social media earlier this year
THIS is the humiliating moment a top cop is caught on camera using his mobile phone while driving.
Detective Constable Rod Carter has now been fined after admitting using the device while behind the wheel.
Greater Manchester force launched a probe after footage was posted on social media earlier this year.
In the clip, a motorist, who suspects the officer of using his mobile phone, gets out of his car while both are stopped at a set of traffic lights to confront him.
He asks Carter, who has his phone to his ear: “What are you doing?”
The sheepish officer then ends his call and winds down his window.
The cameraman then asks: “Do you work for GMP? (Greater Manchester Police)”
Det Con Carter, who has starred in a BBC show about Greater Manchester Police, replies “I do, yes.”
He is then asked why he is on his phone and replies: “It was a business call.”
But now Det Con Carter has been handed a £100 fine after admitting using his phone while driving, police confirmed.
A spokesman for GMP said that the investigation had concluded after Det Con Carter admitted using his phone illegally.
The clip was originally posted on Facebook by Faz Khan in January. Alongside the recording he said: “Just caught a police officer in
Manchester on his phone so we followed him to ask why he was on his phone whilst driving and he said it was a business call.
“But regardless of business or pleasure you cannot be on your phone then he drove off I went inside Longsight Police Station had a word with his boss, meeting has been set, happy days and I got his details.”
Last year Det Con Carter featured in a documentary following the work of a crack team of Manchester sex crime detectives.
A BBC crew filmed the Serious Sex Offences Unit of Greater Manchester over two years, tracing the early days of the police investigation into Teret, who was a friend of the disgraced TV personality Jimmy Savile.
Det Carter was also heavily involved in GMP’s crackdown on gang and gun crime in south Manchester, XCalibre.
He was key in the squad’s efforts to clean up the city’s streets and end a spate of tit-for-tat shootings - acting as a link between gang bosses and police.
