tl:dr
Dc Sewell was working as a tutor training newly recruited detectives at the time, and claimed to have not had enough work to do.
A police officer who wrote erotic stories on his work laptop has been sacked.
A Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing was told that Detective Constable Thomas Sewell used work downtime to write a first-person story containing "misogynistic, aggressive and sexual language", which the chair described as "deeply offensive".
DC Sewell admitted the allegation, claiming he had penned such stories for many years to cope with a traumatic early career incident.
He also admitted going on Wikipedia during working hours, accessing pages containing erotic themes and explicit images, including “sex shows”, “pornography” and “exhibitionism”.
In an extract of a story – called White Male Juvenile – shared by the hearing, the officer wrote: “Why bother trying to succeed in the male-dominated world, if you’re simply going to do what women claim they hate doing and objectify yourself, show off your assets, your physicality, advertise your attributes like there’s a f****** sale on for them at the moment.”
DC Sewell admitted going on Wikipedia during working hours and accessing pages containing erotic themes and explicit images (PA Wire)
DC Sewell admitted going on Wikipedia during working hours and accessing pages containing erotic themes and explicit images (PA Wire)
In a different passage, the character in the story refers to a person in mental health crisis contemplating suicide as “pond scum”.
Dc Sewell was working as a tutor training newly recruited detectives at the time, and claimed to have not had enough work to do.
Defending his actions, he said he was seriously injured at a pub earlier in his career, and “turned to writing” as a way of dealing with the trauma.
“Dc Sewell is very sorry and disappointed,” the hearing was told.
“His team did not have enough work to do because there are fewer detectives recruited than previously and as a trainer this left him with significant downtime,” an officer told the hearing on his behalf.
Chair of the misconduct hearing Commander Katie Lilburn ruled that his actions amounted to gross misconduct and dismissed him from the force without notice.
“The content is deeply offensive in that it is misogynistic as well as erotically explicit,” she said of his story.
“Dc Sewell admitted doing the writing during working hours so he cannot have been diligent in the exercise of his duties and responsibilities.
“The misogynistic and sexualised comments in the documents is especially abhorrent because they were not just erotic but also specific to policing and misogynistic in a policing context,” she added.
by OneNormalBloke
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Should get a job as the PM press secretary and fabricate a reason to go to an illegal war like Alistair Campbell
This feels like the least-worst thing a police officer has been fired for recently.
Why are you doing it on a work laptop?
Seems like a nothing burger story. Employee doing something suspect during working hours gets fired.
Perhaps writing an erotic short story should become part of police recruitment screening.
If they can write something that isn’t utterly vile they can move onto physical screening.
If it’s well written they get on the detective fast track.
As the officer entered the flat, he saw the victim shaken, in tears. In training all officers are taught to handle distressed individuals but PC Raymond knew what he learnt wasn’t enough. Her face showed greater angst than normal and her bosom jiggled in distress. Raymond knew that she needed extra consoling.
He leans over and stares into her eyes, offering words of comfort; ‘calm down, innit’ he said with great authority. Tracy, confused yet now besotted by a man brimming with confidence and assertiveness and In a moment of impulse and weakness, reaches down, grabbing his extending truncheon.
Her mouth now a vessel for his mighty meat pacifier, she goes to town on it like a drunken Englishman gorging a Gyro in Mykonos. Raymond is transported to a world of pure bliss, where maidens with heaving bosoms and tight police uniforms reign blow after blow on dirty forignas.
Raymond peaks in orgasmic ecstasy shouting ‘Taser, taser, taser!’ as he fires his electric goo on Tracy’s face.
After the haze of pleasure dissipates, PC Raymond truncheons the slag on the head and arrests her for assaulting a police officer.
The met are getting more creatively useless I see
I thought it was a she and her name was sue
Glad he’s fired, but just wait till you see the kind of stuff women read and write. Misogynistic perverts, the lot of them.
How TF do the police have people without enough work to do?!
Should have gotten on the “to catch a predator” team he could sext all day
I’d have to read it to see if they’re over reacting in a weird woke way, like if it’s just cos he says the word bitch or it’s actually satire or something
EDIT I missed the excerptsÂ
Well it seems like venting which I get tbh it’s not like it was meant to be for the public anyway
that shit ain’t misogynistic there’s loads of women like that and you must agree with a hypocritical sexist culture that perpetually projects all men as a singular entity in having advantages and power and women having none or you’re sexistÂ
Blue light diaries
Employee wastes time. If it weren’t for people’s moral attitudes towards sex, this wouldn’t be a story.
Not defending him, the guy was wasting employer’s time on employer’s equipment, any job would be right to consider that out of line. I just don’t think the fact that he was writing kinky stories matters that much.
He won’t do that again
Person works in office and has nothing to do with- does something more interesting that twiddle thumbs – FIRED
Pathetic reason to be dismissed. Final warning would have sufficed. We need as many police on the streets as possible these days.
Defending his actions, he said he was seriously injured at a pub earlier in his career, and “turned to writing” as a way of dealing with the trauma.
mate i do that every friday no excuse
He was a fool, but nowhere near as bad as Wayne Cousens.
I think he has been sacked so the Met can brag about how they have sacked him.
No wonder they don’t investigate crimes as busy writing stories for self gratification’.
Brings a whole new meaning to “pounding the beat”.
Idiot.
This is a weird one because it’s not really clear to me the reason behind it being gross misconduct.
Is it just the content of the stories? In which case would they have lost their job if they wrote them on a personal laptop off duty?
Is the fact that they did it during work time in which case does their argument that they were not given enough work hold merit because that sounds like a management issue. If they did all their coaching meetings and didn’t have anything else to do and they just sat in silence would that have got them sacked??
Is it the fact that they used a work laptop that is the issue? If they had brought their personal laptop into work would that have been ok?
It doesn’t say anywhere that they were distributing the stories anywhere so it’s not like the content could bring their organisation into disrepute.
Is it just cringe behaviour so they deserve to be sacked?
It feels like someone could have just said “hey don’t do that” and that been the end of it.
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