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Dorset police instructor removed female trainees’ earrings with bolt cutters, hearing told (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/weirdnews

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Dorset police instructor removed female trainees’ earrings with bolt cutters, hearing told

PC Martin Briggs’ alleged treatment on day of fitness test left one woman bleeding from her ears

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Important context:

Three officers... told him they were physically unable to remove their stud earrings.

... [One officer] said she managed to remove most of her jewellery but had an earring which she could not get out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's likely nothing in the fitness test that would make cutting part of someone's ear to get their stud out necessary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ikr. In martial arts training, if someone can't get jewelry off, we just wrap some medical tape over it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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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