A FORMER Metropolitan police officer who was jailed for bribery and smuggling drugs into a prison is behind bars again after trying to cash bogus cheques at a bank in Bradford bank.

Disgraced George Tod, a former detective sergeant, travelled from his home in Hermon Hill, London, to try to obtain a total of £26,000 from the Barclays branch in Carlisle Street.

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that Tod, a 68-year-old divorced father-of-two, successfully cashed a false cheque for £6,000, but when he returned to the same branch 12 days later suspicious staff made inquiries and discovered he was not connected with the company named on the £20,000 cheque.

Prosecutor Clare Benson said Tod was also in possession of had a passport which bore his photograph, but it had a false name on it.

After his arrest inquiries revealed that £6,000 had been obtained from the same branch on February 5.

Tod pleaded guilty at an earlier crown court hearing to the two charges of fraud by false representation and yesterday Judge Jonathan Rose jailed him for 16 months.

The court heard that Tod had been jailed for a bribery offence while he was a police officer and in 2009 he was locked up again for nine years after he tried to smuggle drugs into a prison while working as a “runner” for a firm of solicitors.

Tod was only released from that sentence in May last year and Judge Rose said the latest offences had been committed because of greed.

“You will not learn from prison sentences,” Judge Rose told Tod.

“But the public are entitled to be protected from your offending while you are in custody.”