Former Suffolk Police officer sentenced for sharing bodycam footage on WhatsApp
Charlotte Nelson, 25, resigned from the Suffolk force in September last year
Last updated 6th Aug 2025
A former Suffolk Police officer has been sentenced, after sharing details of arrests and bodycam footage with a personal WhatsApp group.
Charlotte Nelson, aged 25 and of Cedar Drive, Worlingham who resigned from the Suffolk force in September last year, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for two years at Ipswich Crown Court today (6 August).
The offending took place while she was acting as a police constable between January 2022 and October 2023.
One of the offences saw her record body worn footage from an incident in Lowestoft on her mobile phone of a vulnerable young adult being restrained in hospital. She then shared it with members of the public without consent in January 2022.
She pleaded guilty to three offences at an earlier hearing. She also received a 25 day rehabilitation order and has to do 150 hours unpaid work
At a police gross misconduct hearing conducted earlier this year she was also barred from serving as a police officer again and the hearing also found that if she was still an officer she would have been dismissed from the service.
DCC Rob Jones said: “I recognize how much it undermines public confidence in policing when someone abuses the trust placed in them as a police officer in this way. Suffolk police, take great care with people’s personal information, and pride in the standards we uphold in serving the public. Charlotte Nelson is barred from ever serving as a police officer again.”