Married police chief resigns after having sex with rookie PC almost half his age

Daniel Greenwood headed West Yorkshire Police’s Covid enforcement team - but he breached the rules himself to have sex with probationary officer Caitlin Howarth.

A married police chief who had sex with a PC almost half his age has retired from the force.

Disgraced Daniel Greenwood, who headed West Yorkshire Police's Covid enforcement team, breached lockdown rules to have sex with Caitlin Howarth. Probationary officer Caitlin met Greenwood in March 2020.

Her mother was a secretary at a school where he was a governor and he helped her to join the force and pushed through her application. The misconduct came to light when Caitlin, now 24, started a sexual relationship with a drug dealer she met on Tinder.

The Mirror reports that Greenwood, 41, of Bingley, West Yorkshire, accepted allegations of gross misconduct between March 2019 and November 2021 at a police disciplinary hearing today and resigned from the force. Caitlin, who has already left the police, faces a future disciplinary hearing.

She was referred to as 'Miss A' at the hearing. It heard how in the summer of 2020, texts between Greenwood and Miss A ‘became flirtatious and openly sexual in nature’.

She told him she was attracted to older men and that she wanted to leave her boyfriend, who she lived with.

Mr Begg said: ”Miss A was 20 and not yet a probationer constable. Daniel Greenwood was a chief superintendent aged 37. The disparity in age and status was stark.”

In September that year, Greenwood took Miss A to a medical appointment and later that month they had a clothed ‘sexual activity’ at her parents’ house. He also attended her uniform fitting and in November, he kissed her whilst she was out walking her dog in the Bingley area.

Three months later, he helped her to pass a police exam. During the January 2021 Covid lockdown, Greenwood was on duty and working from home when he went jogging and visited Miss A at her flat, where they had sexual intercourse for the first time.

John Beggs KC stated this breached the Covid regulations.

He said: “Daniel Greenwood knew very well that to attend Miss A’s home address for sexual activity would be in breach of the law and plainly not acceptable."

In July 2021 Greenwood visited Miss A’s new apartment, which she shared with her boyfriend, and had sexual intercourse with her for a second time. Again, he had been on a run from his home and it was by mutual arrangement.

Miss A’s fellow probationary officers noted Greenwood helping her during training, and in March Miss A confessed to colleagues during a drinking game that she’d had sex with the superior officer.

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Two months later, Miss A engaged in a sexual relationship with drug dealer Joseph Shaw after he contacted her on Tinder, which Greenwood became aware of. Neither Miss A nor Greenwood informed professional standards.

Flirtatious texts between Greenwood and Miss A continued into November until Shaw was arrested for supplying class A drugs on November 2. Miss A was arrested later that same day on suspicion of passing information to her drug dealing boyfriend.

After learning of her arrest, Greenwood wiped his mobile phone. However, his wrongdoing was discovered by West Yorkshire Police.

Mr Beggs told the hearing that Greenwood had struggled with alcohol for 10 years and has addictive personality traits. Joseph Shaw was jailed for six and a half years in January, last year, for the supply of class A drugs.

Miss A resigned from the force in April last year. A criminal case against her was dropped by the CPS earlier this week.

West Yorkshire Police stated:”The case against a former West Yorkshire Police student officer has been discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Caitlin Howarth, 24, who worked in Bradford, was previously charged with Misconduct in a Public Office. The CPS has now advised that they are offering no evidence, meaning that she has been acquitted of the charge. Ms Howarth has resigned from the force. She remains the subject of a misconduct investigation.”

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