#VettingFailure
3 entries tagged VettingFailure.
People (2)
- Ashley Podsiad-Sharp Ashley Podsiad-Sharp was a 42-year-old HMP Armley prison officer and former National Action member convicted in 2023 at Sheffield Crown Court of possessing the White Resistance Manual, sentenced to eight years plus five years extended licence.
- Benjamin Hannam Benjamin Hannam was a probationary Metropolitan Police constable convicted on 1 April 2021 at the Old Bailey of National Action membership, fraud by false representation on his police vetting forms, and possession of terrorist documents, becoming the first serving UK police officer convicted of a terrorism-related offence, with his identification tracing directly to the 2019 Iron March database leak.
Events (1)
- Operation Jorica Operation Jorica was a Metropolitan Police internal review of vetting and hiring practices covering the ten years prior to April 2023, published in January 2026, which found that nearly 90 per cent of 5,073 recruits examined had not been subjected to special branch counter-terrorism screening during the Police Uplift Programme recruitment period.