A police officer who was caught paying prostitutes for sex was granted anonymity during his misconduct hearing.
The officer, who resigned from Staffordshire Police before they could be sacked, was not named by the force during disciplinary proceedings.
No reason was given for the decision to grant anonymity, but the force said they would have been dismissed if they had not already left.
At an accelerated misconduct hearing, the force said the ex-PC had engaged in sexual activity with sex workers for payment while off duty.
They were found to have breached the standards of professional behaviour and will now be placed on the National College of Policing’s Barred List, preventing them from working within policing and other law enforcement bodies.
Acting Assistant Chief Constable Sally Blaiklock.said: “We expect all of our officers, staff and volunteers to act with the highest level of integrity and professional behaviour, both on and off duty.
Paying up beats the usual mumping, no?
You have to love the pronoun. I suppose it could have been a female copper…
Also, what?
Ltw
That made me laugh too.
I guess it would have been a giveaway if they had said “xe”
I’m trying to find a joke about “two coppers to rub together,” but not getting there.
Chris, what’s the colour of a two cent coin? Copper, copper 🙂
I noticed that this is supposed to apply to volunteers as well. Wow.
Otto, Lts;
It’s peculiar, particularly as the very first sentence is;
“A police officer who was caught paying prostitutes for sex was granted anonymity during his misconduct hearing.”
That’s the problem with misusing the plural pronoun. It’s unnatural and misleading, and difficult to keep consistent.
“before they could be sacked”: I’m trying to persuade my wife that we should cancel our subscription to the Telegraph. I enjoy Tim Stanley and Michael Deacon but it’s not worth a hundred quid a month. Not even close.
Dearieme, use a different browser to your normal one and turn off Javascript. Read away.
@Norman, how do you turn off Javascript?
‘noscript’ firefox add-on.
“ an accelerated misconduct hearing” – for a consensual, legal transaction.
And yet elsewhere:
“The former police constable … was arrested on 31 March [2025] on suspicion of raping a teenage girl in Rotherham in 2004 and has been released on bail.”
https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/news/third-former-south-yorkshire-police-officer-arrested-investigation-child-sex-abuse-complaints
What does “‘noscript’ firefox add-on” mean?
Dearieme, an arson is a program that works with your browser, and ‘noscript’ is the name of the one you need.
*addon, stupid predictive text!
@dearieme
1 Download & Install the Chrome browser (if you don’t already have it).
2 At the top right click the column of 3 dots ‘.’
3 At the bottom of the list click settings.
4 Click Privacy and security.
5 Scroll down to Content > Javascript
6 Click Javascript.
7 Add https://www.telegraph.co.uk to the ‘Not allowed to use javascript’ section.
8 Close the settings tab, and view the https://www.telegraph.co.uk website.
9 Get rapidly boored…
@Roger III: I am in your debt, sir. Assuming it works.
@rog
1 Download & Install the Chrome browser. yes
2 At the top right click the column of 3 dots. Yes
3 At the bottom of the list click settings. YES
4 Click Privacy and security. yup
5 Scroll down to Content > Javascript.
NOPE, no sign of it. Can’t see the word “Content” anywhere.
Wot next?
6 Click Javascript.
7 Add https://www.telegraph.co.uk to the ‘Not allowed to use javascript’ section.
8 Close the settings tab, and view the https://www.telegraph.co.uk website.
9 Get rapidly boored…
Bugger…
4.5 Click Site settings (bottom of Privacy and security section).
Ya beauty, Rog.
I find the trick with the Torygraph is to access the paper via a browser with Javascript disabled. But then open the pages by copy/pasting the link into a browser with Javascript enabled. Disabled, one tends to lose a lot of the functionality of the pages. Videos, scrollable panels etc. But the Javascript block is rarely present on daughter pages.
Thanks, BiS. I’ll give it a try.