{"id":348057,"date":"2026-01-02T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:21:08","slug":"ex-west-yorkshire-detective-charged-with-sexual-assault-and-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348057\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex West Yorkshire detective charged with sexual assault and theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former West Yorkshire Police officer has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and a series of other offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patrick Banks, 42, who worked as a detective constable in Leeds, also faces one charge of theft and two of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Yorkshire Police said the charges relate to alleged offences said to have taken place while both on and off duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Banks, who was suspended from duty in May 2025 and subsequently left the force, is due to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former West Yorkshire Police officer has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-348057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}