Police worker who snorted cocaine in her office quits
Lyndsey Dinning, 31, quit her job in the fingerprint department of Greater Manchester Police after an undercover operation.
A camera was placed in her office following a tip-off and she was arrested last December after being caught in the act.
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Hide AdThe former laboratory officer tested positive for cocaine and resigned from her job.
Dinning, of Marleyer Close, Moston, pleaded guilty to possession of Class A drugs at Warrington Crown Court on April 27.
She also admitted misuse of a computer, after she accessed information about friends and family from a police data-
base.
Dinning was sentenced to 130 hours unpaid work, police said.
The judge ruled that a third charge of misconduct in public office should lie on file.