PC Carson Police Constable Carson was assigned to the case when Bev Unwin reported Charlie Stubbs for forcing his way into her flat and for his threatening behaviour in July 2005 . She arrived at the Rovers Return Inn public house to question Charlie . Charlie told her how Bev broke into the Builder ' s Yard and stole invoices and letters . The policewoman gave Bev a ticking off , telling her she was lucky Charlie didn ' t want to press charges for theft . In August of the same year , Les Battersby went to the police station to try to claim an engagement ring in lost property as his own . Instead , he was questioned for stealing the ring by a sergeant , until Carson confirmed he was not the suspect she had previously encountered , and Les ' s partner Cilla Brown backed up his alibi that he was in Spain at the time of the robbery . Later in November , the constable was assigned to the case when Gail Platt called the police after her son David claimed that Jason Grimshaw attacked him . Gail ' s boyfriend Phil Nail interrupted and confirmed Jason ' s story that David had started the fight . In March 2006 , the policewoman arrived at Mike Baldwin ' s flat after he called the police when he got confused about his son Danny and Danny ' s girlfriend Leanne Battersby being there , as Mike was suffering from Alzheimer ' s disease . When the police arrived , Mike was confused as to why they were there . Two months later , the officer arrived at 8 Coronation Street along with a male colleague when Gail called the police about someone sending her cards from her deceased husband Richard Hillman . Gail was relieved when they took her seriously and they took the card away for tests . Gail suggested that Phil was behind the whole thing . The officer later called to tell Gail that Phil was back in the area , leaving Gail confused whether to suspect David or Phil . The female officer later attended to the scene when Fred Elliott died of a stroke on his wedding day in October . Appearing on the Street again in December , the officer and her male colleague arrived to investigate Claire Peacock ' s allegations of the violence she heard next door between Charlie and Tracy Barlow . Arriving at the scene in January 2007 with the same male colleague she worked with the previous year , she investigated when Tracy called the police after Charlie assaulted her stepbrother Peter . Tracy used the phone call to her advantage by playing the part of the battered wife . Later in May , the officer was part of the emergency crews who were deployed to the Street when Claire was trapped inside No . 4 while the house was on fire . The police officer arrived alone at the Rovers in January 2008 to collect details on the missing Ryan Connor , who ran away after learning that Michelle was not his biological mother . The officer was present at the station in October that year when Becky Granger was taken in for questioning by corrupt officer DC Hooch . In January 2009 , she arrived at the scene of a fight between David and Gary Windass in which David was badly beaten and in September , she called round at No . 11 when Eileen Grimshaw was burgled . The officer was part of the emergency crews who were deployed to the Street in December 2010 when it was rocked by an explosion from The Joinery bar , followed by a derailed tram from the wrecked viaduct . She explained to John Stape that Charlotte Hoyle , whom he had critically injured with a hammer , had a weak pulse and called for an ambulance . In April 2011 , the policewoman asked Fiz Stape about an argument she had with John after he went missing . PC Carson was called to the scene in February 2012 when , whilst kissing passionately in his builder ' s van , Jason and Rosie Webster accidentally knocked the handbrake off and rolled the vehicle into another car . The car driver appeared to be suffering from whiplash and the police officer told Jason that she would have to issue him with a fixed penalty of £60 and three points on his driving license . In December , PC Carson and Malcolm Lagg turned up on the doorstep of 10a Coronation Street looking for Dennis Tanner on " council business " . Tommy Duckworth directed them to the Rovers where Dennis was asked to identify Steve McDonald who had stolen his crossing patrol lollipop stick . The matter was swiftly dealt with when Steve agreed to return the stop sign . In October of the following year , the officer and an unnamed male colleague called at the Rovers to question Tina McIntyre after Tracy Barlow reported her for throwing a brick through the window of Barlow ' s Buys . PC Carson explained that under restorative justice , if Tina agreed to pay for the damage incurred and assured the police that it was a one - off incident , then no further action would be taken against her . When homeless girl Maddie Heath attempted to steal Sally Webster ' s watch from inside No . 4 , the officer came to the house in January 2014 to take witness statements . Sally ' s partner Tim Metcalfe explained that he was napping on the sofa when someone entered the property and promptly assaulted him . In order to save face , Tim explained to PC Carson that his assailant was a strong , six - foot tall male . Two months later , the officer was reacquainted with Gail and her family after an intruder gained access to No . 8 . Caught red - handed in the property by Gail and her daughter - in - law Kylie , the man beat a hasty retreat and drove off in his van before Kylie and onlooker Fiz could memorise the vehicle ' s registration number . Carson and her colleague PC Connolly were assigned to the case . She and PC Connolly were once again paired up and accompanied social worker Selina Rowley when they visited No . 13 in May 2014 following the disappearance of Ben Heath from his foster parents ' home . His sister Maddie and her partner Sophie Webster subsequently hid out with Ben inside Mary Taylor ' s motorhome , but Maddie eventually agreed to let Ben leave when he said that he wanted to return home and move with the foster family to Devon . The police officers saw Ben and arrested Maddie and Sophie , however the pair were eventually released without charge . In January 2017 , she and PC Daniel Burke investigated a mysterious fire which gutted the bodyshop of Webster ' s Autocentre on Viaduct Street . The fire had been started by Andy Carver blackmailed into doing so on the orders of Pat Phelan , partly as an act of revenge against Kevin Webster , and partly to destroy an incriminating conversation about another of his scams that had been captured on the garage ' s CCTV . An investigation quickly revealed the arson and that the latop with the CCTV footage was missing ( stolen by Andy ) and that there was no evidence that the doors had been forced - Phelan having stolen the keys from Kevin after getting him into a drunken stupor . The keys had been left by Andy on the garage floor and the police used this as evidence to arrest Kevin for arson . They questioned him but he protested his innocence . They also questioned Tyrone Dobbs who , somewhat falsely , attested to Kevin being so drunk he was unconscious both before and when the fire started . The police had no option but to release Kevin .