What's that old saying? Absolute power corrupts, absolutely? I think that was it.

From the Telegraph:

A police officer has been arrested for selling guns that had been handed in by the public to be destroyed, police have said.

The officer, a long-serving member of the Durham Constabulary, was arrested in connection with the sale of more than 100 shotguns to new owners.

A two-month police investigation found the guns in question, which had been handed to police by licensed gun owners who no longer wanted their weapon, had effectively vanished from the police registration system and found their way to new owners.

Police said all the missing firearms had now been recovered, and stressed that all the guns had been sold to "respectable members of the community" who were all licensed gun holders.

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