VAN driver Michel Goodrich faced some tough questions from his employers after his company vehicle was clocked for suspected kerb crawling.

Mr Goodrich had been with his partner helping to look for a neighbour’s lost dog in the New Road area of Rochester.

But the vehicle registration number of his van was taken down by police who got in touch with Mr Goodrich's company.

The 23-year-old father of one said: “It was very embarrassing. I was hauled into my boss’s office and faced with a letter from the police which said they were investigating the driver of a vehicle seen on May 29 for kerb crawling and anti-social behaviour and it was my van. I couldn’t believe it.

“I had to explain to my boss what I was doing, Luckily he saw the funny side afterwards.”

Mr Goodrich, of Goddington Road, Strood, is relieved that he has now been informed police will not be taking the investigations any further.

But he added: “If my partner hadn’t been with me or if there was no record of the dog being reported missing to the police I would not have been able to prove what I was really doing.

“I was worried that I was going lose my job over it, it’s been very upsetting for both me and my partner.

“It turned out the police had already picked up the dog and it was at the station at the time I was driving around looking for it.

“If police had just told my neighbour they had found his dog, then I needn’t have been on New Road in the first place.”

Chief Insp Des Keers, from Medway Police, said: “The police work with their partners to tackle the problems of prostitution and frequently patrol areas associated with this issue.

“In this instance a patrol requested further details on a company car and, to gain this information, a data protection form had to be completed and sent to the company.

"On the form no person was named or accused of an offence. A reason for the data request had to be completed for the information to be given to the police.

“After receiving these details from the company, inquiries were conducted and it transpired that no offences had been committed."