By Sammie Jones-
A detective police who sent a picture of his penis to his colleague has been unfairly protected, after being disciplined by Humberside Police .
A misconduct hearing on Tuesday heard the detective, who cannot be named for legal reasons sent Police Constable Katie Jackson the image on September 21, 2016. It took two years for the misconduct hearing to be heard, which is too long. Whilst the male officer’s identity has been hidden, PC Jackson, the woman to whom he sent the picture has not been afforded the same protection. Her offence was the fact she shared the picture with her other colleagues at Goole police station in East Yorkshire., against the instruction of her superiors. She denied she was told not to show the picture.
PC Jackson, told the hearing at Goole Magistrates’ Court she had been expecting “a picture of a cake” when she received the obscene picture. She showed the image to a number of her colleagues, including PC Rachel Eyre, who said she was embarrassed after the image was “thrust in her face”.
PC Jackson’s claim not to have been told not to show the image further by three sergeants and one inspector, means either she was lying or her superiors were telling lies. It is more believable that she was given this instruction since three separate senior officers claim they told her, although her superiors may be taking sides with the first Sargent to come forward and claim PC Jackson was instructed not to show the picture to anyone. An observable weakness here is the failure of the sergeants to have expressed their warning to her in writing for record purposes. The female officer said it was not the first time the male officer had sent her such an image, though she had never pursued a formal complaint about it.
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During the two-day misconduct hearing PC Jackson was also accused of making up details of an alleged assault against her at Scunthorpe General Hospital on August 13, 2016. She was acquitted of the allegation because of lack of evidence and conflicting accounts about the claim. The entire disciplinary hearing was more a reflection of some of the indiscipline in the police force. Any police officer should be conscious of ethical standards in the profession, and be smart enough to express wanted advances in words only, not obscene pictures. PC Jackson was unprofessional in her decision to show her colleagues the picture, but it seems unfair that her identity gets released while the man who actually sent the picture is shielded with anonymity.
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