WILTSHIRE'S emergency planning chief Mark Kimberlin is returning to work almost a year after he was suspended during a police porn investigation.

Mr Kimberlin, 47, was suspended by Wiltshire County Council following his arrest in January by police as part of an Interpol dragnet Operation Ore to locate Internet paedophiles.

It was understood that a computer was seized from Mr Kimberlin's home in Westbury.

Now he has been told that the Crown Prosecution Service has decided there is no case to answer.

Wiltshire police have always declined to comment on the arrest while the investigations were continuing.

A police insider confirmed to the Gazette that the CPS had said it was not proceeding with any allegations against the emergency planner.

Mr Kimberlin, whose home was in Westbury at the time of his arrest in January, has not been available to comment.

His employers issued the following statement: "Mark Kimberlin is the Wiltshire County Council head of emergency planning.

"County council policy required that he was suspended when he was the subject of a police inquiry earlier this year.

"Suspension in these circumstances does not imply any guilt or wrong- doing.

"He is no longer suspended and the county council is looking forward to his return to work."

Mr Kimberlin, formerly a member of the RAF Regiment, took over as the head of emergency planning in Wiltshire in 2002 after his former boss David Head resigned after being found guilty of fraudulent expenses claims.

He first became an emergency planner in Cleveland in 1990 and joined the Wiltshire emergency planning team in 1998 as the assistant chief.

At the time of his arrest, Wiltshire police, as part of Operation Hussar Wiltshire police contribution to the international operation Ore made 30 arrests. They were working on information passed to them by the FBI in America. It was said the FBI passed details of 7,500 people in the United Kingdom to local police forces to investigate.