Police officer in court after car collides with member of public’s car in Harlow
Crime / Fri 3rd Apr 2026 at 06:00am
A SERVING Essex Police officer is due to appear in court next week to face a charge of driving without due care or attention.
PC Oliver Potts is alleged to have driven carelessly in Edinburgh Way, Harlow, on 23 September 2023.
The officer was in a marked police vehicle and activated his emergency equipment in order to respond to an ongoing incident.
He was involved in a collision with a member of the public’s vehicle and a traffic light post.
No serious injuries were sustained.
PC Potts has denied a charge of driving without due care and attention and is set to appear for trial at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Friday 10 April.
Adam
2026-04-03 08:02:14
What a pointless case
Chas
2026-04-03 11:55:23
Why would that be Adam? Surely our police officers are not above the law?
Eddie
2026-04-03 14:54:58
Why has it taken over 2 years to get this to court.
David Forman
2026-04-04 09:38:28
Tory closure of courts and an attempt to update the court estate interrupted by COVID. And maintenance issues like leaky roofs, asbestos, heating system failures and cells flooding closed some courts for months at a time. The new electronic case management system failed to work as planned and took ages to put right. Plus, Tory cuts to Legal Aid payments that saw some criminal lawyers reduce their poorly paid Legal Aid work. Oh, and not enough judges and a reduced number of sitting days in courts they did have as a result of cost cutting. Oh, and the privatised prisoner escort service run by Serco failing to deliver prisoners on time to court. Oh, and the CPS screwing up cases by late disclosure of evidence to the defence team and the CPS failing to prepare court papers on time on some occasions. The cost cutting also saw the cut in money available for training barristers, magistrates and judges. The dozy Labour government decided to fix all these issues with cutting access to jury trials. What a clown David Lammy is. See Law Society article at https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or-visit-us/press-office/press-releases/rotting-seagulls-and-unreliable-technology-show-urgent-need-for-court-investment
David Forman
2026-04-04 09:45:26
Oh, and I forgot to mention that the David Cameron Tory government cleared out a load of experienced officers that meant new officers were not properly mentored during training. This led to poor quality evidence gathering and the CPS asking the cops to have another go and a trial delayed. In turn the Police had to ask officers who left the service on redundancy to return as consultants on inflated salaries. Whole teams were turned upside down and the chain of command suffered. The Conservative governments under Cameron to May and on to Sunak ripped the heart out of the criminal justice system.
Mr T.
2026-04-04 09:57:03
David why don't you run for local labour m.p...??
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