Suspended police chief, Jim Torbet, found dead

Police are not treating the death of DCI Jim Torbet as suspicious. He was a Bexhill High School governor.

He was arrested on suspicion of stealing wine from Marks and Spencer, along with Chief Inspector Sharon Rowe.

They were both suspended pending an investigation.

Ch Insp Rowe is district commander of Worthing, while DCI Torbet worked in the force's professional standards department, whose job is to police the police.

The pair were reportedly stopped at Marks and Spencer in the Holmbush Centre in Shoreham on September 28 by security guards who believed wine had been stolen from the store.

They were arrested and bailed while police investigate further.

DCI Torbet, 54, joined Sussex Police in 1980.

In March 2003 his daughter Rae was stabbed to death at her Bexhill home.

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