Police motorcyclist suspended for full membership of BNP.

BNP police officer meets Cherie Blair as UK motocross champion revealed to be member

PC Stephen Bettley was pictured on a police motorcycle just inches away from the then-Prime Minister's wife at an official function - he has now been suspended after his name appeared on the leaked-list of the full membership of the BNP.

Meanwhile it was also reported that motocross star Billy Mackenzie is a BNP member.

The 24-year-old, who is the UK's reigning MX1 motocross champion, was described on the leaked list as an 'activist' and a 'high-profile sportsman', according to The Independent.

PC Bettley, of Merseyside Police, will now be quizzed by his bosses, and has returned home early from holiday to help an investigation into why his name was associated with the BNP.

Merseyside Police have confirmed PC Bettley, 47, was so highly regarded he has served as the staff driver to the force's Chief Constable.

Policemen are banned from joining the far-right wing party, but on the list of BNP members, PC Bettley is clearly named as a member alongside his wife Yvette, 43, herself a former policewoman, and their teenage son.

Merseyside police said they are keeping an open mind until the facts have been established.

A force spokesman said: 'Merseyside Police can confirm that the police officer subject to an ongoing internal investigation into his alleged association with the BNP has today been suspended from duty.'

Mrs Bettley's mother has confirmed her daughter did join the extremist party, but claimed she had since left.

PC Bettley and his wife, who live in Prenton in Mersyside, were on a second honeymoon in Egypt, and have not been returning mobile phone calls about their inclusion among the 12,000 members of the BNP.

The PC was a driver for Chief Constable Bernard Hogan Howe - one of the favourites to succeed Sir Ian Blair as Metropolitan Police chief - for six months in 2006, a spokesman confirmed.

The spokesman for Merseyside Police said: 'Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe has reiterated our position that membership of the British National Party is totally incompatible with the duties and values of Merseyside Police.

'We will not accept a police officer or police staff being a member of BNP.'

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