Met Police tries to dismiss highly decorated officer who was reinstated on appeal after being sacked for possessing a child abuse video
Ms Williams' trial heard she received the video via WhatsApp from her sister who had been sent the clip by her boyfriend.But prosecutors said there was no way she could have missed it, and cited a response from the officer to her older sister to "please call" as evidence she wanted to discuss the content.She was sacked by the Met in March last year after a special disciplinary hearing concluded her behaviour amounted to gross misconduct.
The Met found that Ms Williams' actions were likely to undermine public confidence and had not been a "trivial lapse".It said: "The PAT has made findings in two separate cases that overturned carefully considered decisions to dismiss officers from the Metropolitan Police, which had been made in special case hearings following criminal convictions.
"The special case hearings had deemed that the convictions amount to gross misconduct, and that the officers should be dismissed. In both cases the PAT did not agree with these findings and replaced the officers' dismissals with a final written warning."
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