https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-55089146
Seems a pretty high price to pay for some doughnuts .....
He's been a copper since 2008 so not too much pension, which I'm guessing he loses .....
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I've always wondered about that. His pension payments would have been deducted from his salary and his employer would have contributed too. Surely they must return anything he's actually paid in, or they are punishing him retrospectively?
I would have thought that his own personal contributions could be transferred to another pension, just as if he'd left the job of his own accord. The company contributions would stay in the pension scheme pot, so still a big loss. 
I thought this was the case for all but the serious crimes committed though, like stealing real doughnuts, instead of those horrible shiny things in a box.
It won't keep me awake worrying about it though. 
There is no pot - no concept of personal or company contributions. It's effectively a government run Ponzi scheme. The Govt promise to pay the pension from future taxation. You qualify for the pension by paying your contributions. There is no link between what you pay in, and what you get back as a pension.
That said, it wouldn't surprise me to find that the govt have overlooked some aspects of pension law here. If the pension was non contributory than they may be ok revoking the pension rights. However, if he's been paying contributions to qualify for the scheme then as you say they are confiscating something he's paid for. There is also the issue of Police pension reform, which happened in 2012, where they close the old scheme and opened the new one.
I can see a clued up lawyer running rings round the govt here if the ex-officer decides to take things further.
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