A POLICE officer tried to persuade another Midland officer to let his friend off a fixed penalty notice, a court heard.

Pc Jason Bolas, of Staffordshire Police, also asked Pc Bryn Jeavons to “transfer” the notice to someone else because he said his pal faced a driving ban, it has been alleged.

Bolas, 31, of Laburnum Avenue, Cannock, has denied doing acts which were intended to pervert the course of justice.

Michael Conry, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court, said Pc Jeavons issued Bolas’s friend, Adrian Wooton, with the fixed penalty notice on October 17 last year for driving while making a call on his mobile phone.

The endorsable offence, which carried three penalty points meant that Mr Wooton faced a potential disqualification – because he already had nine points on his licence.

Mr Wooton, he said, told Bolas about the matter when they met in the gym.

And later that day he said the defendant asked to speak with Pc Jeavons in private at Cannock police station.

Mr Conry said Bolas then asked his colleague if he could make the fixed penalty disappear.

When Pc Jeavons said he could not Mr Conry said: “The defendant then suggested that someone else should be linked to the ticket.”

Giving evidence Pc Bolas, who joined Staffordshire Police in 2006, denied asking Pc Jeavons to make the fixed penalty ‘go away’.

He told the court he asked Pc Jeavons whether there was anything Mr Wooton could do about the fixed penalty.

He said he had not asked whether Pc Jeavons could do anything about it, and was a little “shocked” when the officer said that, if he had come 20 minutes earlier, he could have “sorted it” for him.

PC Bolas said as he was leaving that he had said as a “joke” that it was a shame that someone else couldn’t have the ticket.

(Proceeding)