{"id":131183,"date":"2023-09-28T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=131183"},"modified":"2023-09-28T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:46:17","slug":"sergeant-sacked-for-slapping-female-colleagues-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/sergeant-sacked-for-slapping-female-colleagues-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant sacked for &apos;slapping female colleague&apos;s bottom&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Police sergeant who won bravery gong is sacked for &#8216;slapping a female colleague&#8217;s bottom, making sex noises and squirting hand sanitiser at her&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wayne Wright&#8217;s behaviour at Northumbria Police was &#8216;unprofessional and sexist&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A police sergeant who won a bravery award has been sacked for &#8216;slapping a female colleague&#8217;s bottom, making sex noises and squirting hand sanitiser at her&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Northumbria Police Sgt Wayne Wright became obsessed with the police constable&#8217;s bottom for two years, she claimed, and is alleged to have left her with post-traumatic stress disorder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On one occasion the senior officer is alleged to have slapped the junior officer&#8217;s bottom from behind and shouted &#8216;Woo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Wright &#8211; who won a bravery gong alongside three other colleagues in 2007 for trying to save a 13-year-old boy &#8211; was sacked yesterday for gross misconduct following a three-day disciplinary hearing at the Old Magistrates&#8217; Court, Houghton Police Station, Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The junior officer, named only as PC A in documents ahead of the hearing, told the panel &#8216;he liked my trousers tight and would wolf whistle at her&#8217; in the parade room of the station in front of other officers, reported The Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/28\/11\/75932825-12569717-image-a-6_1695898260001.jpg\" height=\"399\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sgt Wayne Wright worked for Northumbria Police (pictured: force&#8217;s headquarters in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear) and was accused of being obsessed with his female colleague&#8217;s bottom<\/p>\n<p>Colleagues left her feeling &#8216;humiliated, stupid, and embarrassed&#8217; within the &#8216;misogynistic culture&#8217; when they broke out into fits of laughter after Sgt Wright shouted &#8216;she is now a size 12&#8217;, she claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The female officer felt so self-conscious she asked for larger size trousers, which he had to authorise, the hearing was told.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In or around November or December 2020, when strict coronavirus rules were in place, Sgt Wright was accused of squirting a hand sanitiser at her &#8216;to simulate a sexual act&#8217; while making &#8216;loud&#8217; sexual noises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the hand sanitiser incident didn&#8217;t happen and denied breaching police standards. But a panel ruled his behaviour was unprofessional and sexist.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Sgt Wright received a Royal Human Society Award when clambered over rocks to try and save a teen boy from the sea in Hendon in zero temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>He and three other colleagues managed to pull the 13-year-old from the rough waters, but he later died despite their attempts to resuscitate him, reported ChronicleLive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MailOnline contacted Northumbria Police for comment, and the force referred us to a generic statement from Superintendent Steve Ammari published in January.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the force&#8217;s professional standards department says: &#8216;Sadly, from time-to-time, behaviour or conduct of members of our own organisation does fall below the standard we, and the public, expect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The overwhelming majority of our officers, staff and volunteers come to work each and every day to make a positive difference to people&#8217;s lives \u2013 and they equally feel as let down as the public when their colleagues fail to meet the standards they agreed to uphold.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12569717\/police-sergeant-won-bravery-gong-sacked-sexual-harassment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police sergeant who won bravery gong is sacked for &#8216;slapping a female colleague&#8217;s bottom, making sex noises and squirting hand&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sergeant sacked for &amp;apos;slapping female colleague&amp;apos;s bottom&amp;apos; 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