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Dorset police instructor removed female trainees’ earrings with bolt cutters, hearing told
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A police instructor ordered three female trainees to place their heads on a table and used bolt cutters to remove their earrings, a disciplinary hearing has been told.
PC Martin Briggs’ alleged treatment of the young women before a fitness test left one of them bleeding from her ears.
Briggs was overseeing a “bleep test” running drill involving 63 recruits and insisted all jewellery be removed, it is claimed.
Hedditch jokingly suggested: “You’ll have to cut them out,” and Briggs allegedly left the sports hall at Dorset police headquarters and returned with a pair of bolt croppers.
Briggs has said he made a “highly regrettable error of judgment” but denies behaving discreditably, arguing he removed the jewellery with the students’ consent.
Mark Ley-Morgan, a barrister representing Dorset police, said: “PC Briggs’ behaviour was described by witnesses as angry, abrupt, rude and impatient.
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There's likely nothing in the fitness test that would make cutting part of someone's ear to get their stud out necessary.
ikr. In martial arts training, if someone can't get jewelry off, we just wrap some medical tape over it.
Exactly.
But going to another building, grabbing some bolt cutters, returning, having her place her head on a table, slicing into her ear getting the cutter through the stud, and doing all of this aggressively was just an "error of judgement."
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