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A police officer who admitted making more than 50 fabricated complaints about the performance of his own force while suspended from duty has been ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
Many of the emails sent by Jack Wood, 32, of Warmley, South Gloucestershire, specifically targeted Sgt Maz Collacott-Nuur, his superior at Avon and Somerset Police.
He used multiple fake email accounts and two fake Facebook accounts to contact local councillors, the force's police and crime commissioner, chief constable and MPs.
Wood was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court earlier after he pleaded guilty to harassment without violence of Collacott-Nuur and causing wasteful employment of police.
In addition to unpaid work, he was also given a restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim for the next two years, and ordered to pay £114 surcharge and £85 in court costs.
Kevin Withey, prosecuting, told the court Wood had joined the force in 2018 based in Bath, before moving to the Ashley neighbourhood policing team in Bristol in 2020.
He and Collacott-Nuur had previously been colleagues on the same level, but "their friendship ran into difficulty" when she became his superior.
"The defendant had a perception [the victim] was taking sides and favouring a female officer over him," Withey said.
"[The emails] commented that the defendant was the only competent and effective member of that team."
Wood, who is white, claimed to be a man of mixed heritage living in St Pauls in his complaint messages.
One read: "I'm really beginning to feel quite unsafe and I've not seen any police in months. I've not seen the police in a good six to nine months and there seems to be no explanation."
Another said: "The open drug use is dreadful and becoming very intimidating, it's the same in the parks and lanes but it feels like we are being left alone."
'Destroyed my joy'
In subsequent messages he blamed Collacott-Nuur for problems in the area getting worse.
Wood was arrested in October 2025, and resigned from the force in January.
In a victim impact statement, Collacott-Nuur Wood had "destroyed my joy in policing", adding: "Jack made everything dark and sinister and I'm ashamed I didn't trust my instincts sooner to protect myself and my community."
Wood, who represented himself, apologised for his actions, saying: "I couldn't cope with being suspended, I can't function without structure, I couldn't cope with being off. I know that's no excuse but it's the way I am."
Sentencing him to 200 hours of unpaid work and a 12-month community order, District Judge Orla Austin said: "It's clear you caused Sgt Collacott-Nuur very significant distress and it's clear you ruined her joy in policing."
But she remarked Wood had been experiencing a significant deterioration in his mental health at the time, he was at low risk of re-offending, and could be safely managed at the community.
At the time Wood was subject to separate internal disciplinary proceedings for claiming to colleagues he was in a relationship with a woman who had previously rejected his advances.
While he did not face criminal proceedings for those claims, he was found guilty of gross misconduct and told he would have been sacked had he not already resigned.
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