A police officer was arrested after allegedly stealing and crashing a riot van from a high-security police station while drunk.
Metropolitan Police riot squad PC Geoff Jackson, 27, is said to have been found asleep in the wrecked van 10 miles from where it had been parked at Paddington Green, central London - the station where terrorist suspects are held.
Officers woke him up and gave him a breath test.
The Mercedes Sprinter van had struck the kerb on the busy A40 near Perivale, West London, so hard that one of its wheels had been torn off.
The incident allegedly happened after he returned to the Paddington Green police station, where the van was parked, following a work party at 3am last Friday.
He has been suspended from his job on the Met's Territorial Support Group and bailed. A colleague said: "Geoff feels an utter fool."
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