A PCSO has been sacked after trying to swindle £1,600 from her police force in an “idiotic” scam.
Ellisha Wilson, 26, tried to claim she had not been paid her wages to dupe Merseyside Police into giving her extra cash to pay off her chronic debt.
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Senior police colleagues attempted to give Wilson, from Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan, several opportunities to confess to the lie because officers did not want to see her prosecuted.
The 26-year-old police community support officer (PCSO) had racked up debt in her previous job as an air stewardess, and only eventually admitted the con when evidence of her bank transactions were produced.
Wilson admitted fraud by false representation, and was sentenced to a 16 week 7am to 7pm curfew, 20 days of rehabilitative activity with the probation service and was ordered to pay £180 in costs and a victim surcharge.
Sefton Magistrates Court also heard that the apparent ‘missing money’ has been accounted for.
Prosecutor Amie Goulding told the court: “This lady was a community support officer for Merseyside Police. In September of last year she alleged that she had not been paid her wages, £1598.82.
“As a result she was issued with an emergency payment of that money with the agreement that if she had in fact been paid she would not be paid…
