An inspector used his police-issued phone to arrange hundreds of meetings with sex workers, including dozens while he was on duty.
Former Greater Manchester Police officer Toby Knight scheduled 245 of these 'events' from September 2018 and February 2024, with 165 of them taking place while he was supposed to be on shift.
A further 357 meet-ups were organised on his personal phone between May 25, 2023 and April 2, 2024 - a rate of more than one a day, the Manchester Evening News reports.
He conducted 56 of these further appointments on days he was due to be working - with 29 taking place while he was on duty and another 27 when the officer had called in sick.
A gross misconduct hearing at Greater Manchester Police HQ on Thursday concluded he would have been dismissed without notice - had he not retired from the force the day before.
