Bent copper for hire

We expose crooked PC who shames Britain

By Neville Thurlbeck

WALKING his beat, PC Zeeshaan Chaudry looks every inch the respectable bobby.

But out of uniform the cop regarded by his superiors as a role model to youngsters in his community becomes a VILLAIN for hire.

FAKE: Cop card

And the devout Pakistani Muslim is even prepared to help local gangsters frame their rivals by planting TERRORIST DEVICES on them.

Acting on a tip-off, we sent undercover men posing as criminals to see what Chaudry, 23, could do for them.

The bent PC arranged to meet them outside a mosque after he had been to prayers.

First our men told him they needed a fake passport, driving licence and police badge for someone they wanted to smuggle into the country.

Chaudry smiled and said: "Yeah, yeah. I have got someone who can do it. He can do passports, driving licences, wage slips, birth certificates... anything. If you want to get someone over here we'll get him a student visa.

PHONEY: Passport

Then the greedy cop gave us his price...£1,000. "Tell him it is going to cost a grand. I'll give you 500 and I keep 500. We'll do it like that."

Chaudry clearly regarded this as only small-time villainy and was eager to talk about one of his biggest scams—robbing drug dealers.

Raid

The cop bragged how he had access to information about police raids on drug dens. He wanted our undercover men to help him storm the dens the day before the raid and steal the drugs and cash.

Speaking quietly and looking around furtively, Chaudry said: "I know exactly when it's going to happen. I know the process at the beginning. We can make 20 grand each.

"When the transaction is taking place, me and you are going to roll up and take the chips. And that's it.

"Let me know if you are interested. Obviously you have got the balls. If you have a few people who are interested, we are all going to get a little drink out of it."

DODGY: Driving Licence

And he even boasted he could get drugs to prisoners at his police station in Limehouse, east London. "I can get stuff in the cells if it is puff, if they put it in the cigarettes, yeah," he said.

By now, Chaudry was relaxed enough to explain the most disturbing trick in his arsenal of corruption —framing gangsters as TERRORISTS then arresting them.

After our men explained they had a bitter rival they wanted rid of, Chaudry laughed and said: "No one can f*** around with you now man. I'll sort him out. Set him up."

"Get a few batteries, put wires around them, strip the wires to make it look like he is making bombs and that. Put them in his pocket.

"Just get a piece of paper from the internet, how to make explosives. Tell me you are meeting this geezer in the pub and I will come along and find all this stuff on him.

"I can get him ten years man... ten years! We say he's part of al Qaeda."

He also had another solution to the problem too—and even managed to slander his colleagues in the CID in the process.

DRUG: Skunk Cannabis

The meeting was over and our men then showed him what they said was a vanload of stolen goods from Comet.

Chaudry introduced a shifty-looking sidekick who said: "I need a plasma, 50 inch. Whatever he's got (in the van) we'll just take it from him."

Chaudry patted our man on the back and before bidding us farewell, adding: "I don't want anything myself but sort this plasma out, sort it out and I'll bring you one (customer) a day. Only thousand pound orders."

Scotland Yard detectives last night dramatically swooped and arrested Chaudry at an East London address.

A Yard spokesman said: "An off-duty Metropolitan Police constable was arrested and taken to a police station where allegations revealed to us by the News of the World will be put to him."