Sunday 29 May 2022 06:16 PM Chief Inspector who sexually harassed colleague over 10 years sacked from ... trends now
View
comments
A policeman who sexually harassed a female colleague by smelling her hair and rubbing his thighs in her presence over a ten year period has been sacked.
Chief Inspector Paul Crouch, who served in the British Transport Police and was based in London, also told a colleague how he got sexually aroused when he was reading about the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl.
The cop also created a 'sexualised working environment' by putting pictures of famous women he found attractive on his wall.
He kept a list of female colleagues he found attractive while working at Force Headquarters and claimed a recruitment process was unfair because the panel was all female.
But on Friday, Mr Crouch was sacked from the force after being found guilty of gross misconduct at a tribunal in Camden, north London.
The officer made a brazen bid to stay anonymous during the hearing by claiming he could be picked on at football matches if other fans found