Spalding based police officer used phone to post on social media while driving

A police officer’s career was left in tatters after he used a handheld mobile phone to record footage of himself listening to music while at the wheel of his marked vehicle. PC Matthew Breathwick was caught after he used the Snapchat social media application to share the footage with colleagues while on duty. The incident occurred during a night shift on 6 November while PC Breathwick was driving a police van at 50mph on the A17 in Lincolnshire. PC Breathwick, who was based in Spalding, was convicted in March this year of using a handheld mobile phone while driving and resigned from the Force. A Lincolnshire Police misconduct hearing was told the officer repeatedly lied about the incident after being challenged by colleagues who viewed his Snapchat footage. The hearing was told a police officer who was sat next to PC Breathwick in the van became so angry when she was alerted to the footage by Snapchat that she asked to be dropped off and made her own way back to Spalding police station. David Ring, prosecuting, said: “To be blunt it beggars belief that a serving police officer behaved in that way, especially at night, driving at 50mph on…
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