Daily Mail
September 10, 2015
A policeman was today arrested on suspicion of faking a terror plot to kidnap and murder a fellow officer.
A tip-off last December led to West Midlands Police asking staff not to travel to work in their uniform and urged them to be extra vigilant on patrol in case they were attacked.
Today a 28-year-old police officer, named locally as Pc Amar Hussain, was held on on suspicion of of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, misconduct in a public office and misuse of police systems.
Two others, aged 25 and 31, have also been accused of perverting the course of justice in connection with false information given to police.
The trio, all from Birmingham, allegedly made a ‘false and malicious’ call to West Midlands Police on December 8 last year.
The alleged hoax led to heightened security measures last December, which later spread across the country.