12:26pm Monday 20th July 2009
By Ben Parsons, Crime Reporter
A Sussex Police chief inspector has resigned ten months after her arrest for shoplifting.
Ch Insp Sharon Rowe, the police district commander for Worthing, was arrested on suspicion of stealing wine from Marks and Spencer in the Holmbush Centre, Shoreham, in September last year.
She was arrested with Detective Chief Inspector Jim Torbet of the force's professional standards department.
Both were suspended from duty but neither was charged.
DCI Torbet killed himself at his home in Peacehaven in October 2008.
The Crown Prosecution Service later issued a statement saying it would not be in the public interest to charge Ch Insp Rowe.
She had been due to face a disciplinary hearing at the end of this month.
The hearing had been postponed twice.
A spokeswoman for Sussex Police said: "Sussex Police have received and accepted the resignation of Chief Inspector Sharon Rowe.
"With effect from today she is no longer a serving officer and there will therefore be no further action in relation to any alleged misconduct."
© Copyright 2001-2012 Newsquest Media Group
http://www.theargus.co.uk/trade_directory/