A Police officer accused of falsifying a moving violations ticket was today found not guilty.

In a case that lasted three days in Magistrate’s Court, the court heard how Anderson Cumberbatch allegedly falsified a moving violations document in November 2004.

Mr. Cumberbatch who was suspended from the service, plead not guilty to creating a false document and attaching it to the complainant’s file to pass it off as valid.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner today said the crux of the case lay in whether or not the signature on the ticket was false.

Mr. Warner said he could not be sure that the person who signed the ticket was Cumberbatch and not the complainant, Jocelyn Powell’s signature.

“I am unsure who wrote the signature on the third document. I do not accept Jocelyn Powell’s evidence that there was no further meeting with the defendant after she signed the second document,” Mr. Warner said.

“I feel sure that he did not write Jocelyn Powell’s signature. I am not satisfied that the defendant did make a false statement and thus that element is not made up and thus I cannot find him guilty of count one.

“I also do not feel satisfied that he allegedly and knowingly utter a false document as it alleges in count two and so I find the defendant not guilty.”