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Scotland’s Chief Constable twice tried to ‘recruit’ a disgraced senior officer who was stripped of his Queen’s Police Medal after being found guilty of misconduct – including ‘sexting’ from his force phone.

Nick Gargan – a former Chief Constable himself – quit the police in shame in 2015 after an investigation found him guilty of eight charges of misconduct, including sending inappropriate messages from his work phone, improperly interfering with a recruitment process and passing on confidential emails.

But despite his tarnished police career, internal emails seen by The Edinburgh Reporter reveal that Chief Constable Jo Farrell tried to enlist Mr Gargan to advise Police Scotland senior executives on digital services.

And Ms Farrell’s relationship with Gargan – who now works a

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