A trainee police officer has been banned for life for passing information to her drug dealer boyfriend. 

Ex-West Yorkshire Police officer Maryam Ilyas, 20, accessed the force’s computers to find confidential data and inform her criminal boyfriend about an operation into him.

It was found that Ms Ilyas had used police computer systems to search for details about the man on three occasions between March and May 2025.

Ms Ilyas resigned ahead of her disciplinary hearing yesterday, but the panel ruled that she would have otherwise been fired.

Her links to the man were identified when he was arrested in June, with officers finding messages between the pair, including pictures of money and chats about drugs.

The hearing was told that Ms Ilyas failed to notify the force of her relationship with the man when she was recruited in June 2024, and in January, she told investigators she was ‘unaware of his criminal history’.

Catherine Hankinson, the force’s former deputy chief constable, ruled that messages indicated an ‘existing relationship’ up to July 2025. 

She said the officer’s conduct had been ‘repeated’, ‘sustained’ and ‘intentional’. 

‘The public rightly expect police officers to act with honesty and integrity,’ Ms Hankinson said.

‘The vast majority of officers in West Yorkshire Police do uphold those high standards.

‘The conduct of the former officer does a disservice to the public and to her colleagues.’ 

Ms Ilyas admitted the allegations, including failing to declare the relationship on her vetting form and was found to have committed gross misconduct.   

Before the hearing, she had tried to deny wrongdoing, telling The Sun: ‘I was a student officer.

‘I was really new to all this and I feel like I was expected to know everything straight away.’