US EditionPolice worker jailed for passing confidential information to drug dealer boyfriend
- In 2025, Lucy Langmead, a 44-year-old former South Wales Police employee from Pontypridd, was sentenced after unlawfully accessing police systems to share sensitive information with her boyfriend, Daniel Cozens, who was involved in drug offenses.
- In 2020, Langmead entered into a relationship with Cozens and illegally accessed police databases from May 2020 to March 2022 to provide intelligence on his criminal contacts.
- Investigators from the Anti-Corruption Unit found she disclosed data about ongoing investigations, including the Logan Mwangi murder case, and helped Cozens evade detection, disrupting police operations.
- Langmead pleaded guilty to 13 counts of unauthorized access, five of disclosing personal data, and conspiracy to commit misconduct, while Cozens admitted drug supply charges; they were sentenced to nearly three and one year eight months respectively.
- Chief Superintendent Bella Rees stated that unauthorized access to confidential information breaches public trust and will be treated robustly, underscoring the serious harm Langmead's actions caused to policing integrity.
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Police Employee Tipped Off Drug Dealing Boyfriend With Confidential Info Officers Had on His 'Associates': Police
A former police employee in Wales was jailed for leaking sensitive data to her drug-dealing boyfriend, compromising investigations and betraying public trust.
·New York, United States
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Former member of Police staff convicted for passing confidential information onto her drug-dealer boyfriend
A former member of police staff has been convicted of passing on confidential information to her drug dealer boyfriend. Lucy Langmead, aged 44, from Pontypridd, was working for South Wales Police when she began a relationship in 2020 with Daniel Cozens, 37. An investigation by the force’s Anti-Corruption Unit found that between May 2021 and
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