A ROOKIE cop has been banned for life after passing inside information to her drug dealer boyfriend.
PC Maryam Ilyas, 20, accessed force computers to share confidential data — including pictures of a police operation.
She also looked up the con, his family and associates before lying about the relationship when caught.
Leeds-based Ilyas resigned ahead of a disciplinary hearing yesterday and would otherwise have been sacked, the misconduct panel ruled.
She was busted in July when officers who arrested her boyfriend — named only as Mr J — found phone messages including pictures of wads of cash and chats about drugs.
Ilyas was also found to have disclosed information about a plain-clothes op and scoured restricted computers three times.
She told investigators they had split in January and she was “unaware of his criminal history”.
But the panel said she had continued messaging him until the month of his arrest.
Ilyas later admitted the allegations including failing to declare the relationship on her vetting form in June 2024.
She was found to have committed gross misconduct.
Panel chair Catherine Hankinson said: “The public rightly expect police officers to act with honesty and integrity.
“The vast majority of officers in West Yorkshire Police do uphold those high standards.
“The conduct of the former officer does a disservice to the public and to her colleagues.”
Astonishingly, Ilyas had tried to deny wrongdoing, telling The Sun before the hearing: “I was a student officer.
“I was really new to all this and I feel like I was expected to know everything straight away.”
The Wakefield hearing turned down The Sun’s application to name the drug dealer boyfriend, claiming it was not in the public interest.
