PC Andrea Griffiths,female police officer loses fight to clear her name after admitting having sex on duty with male victim of sexual abuse

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The disgraced female police officer in Wales, who admitted having sex on duty with a male victim, has lost her fight to clear her name of sexual abuse.

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PC Andrea Griffiths, 44, was set to face a disciplinary hearing for gross misconduct for having sex with a ‘vulnerable’ middle-aged man in 2015.

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However, she resigned on the morning of a misconduct hearing saying she ‘deeply regretted’ the fling with the man she was supposed to be looking after.

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According to Mail Online, the force then said she would have been sacked if she hadn’t quit and put her on a banned list of former officers not allowed to work in the police again. But the former officer decided to appeal against her ban, and had a new ‘behind closed doors’ hearing to clear her name.

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A three-day appeals tribunal hearing was held at the force’s Colwyn Bay HQ to contest the panel’s finding ‘that the only appropriate outcome for breaches of standards of professional behaviour would have been that Ms. Griffiths would have been dismissed if she was still a serving police officer’.

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The earlier hearing was told PC Griffiths had been a liaison officer for the ‘vulnerable’ middle-aged man.

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On Thursday, April 27,  The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales said: ‘The appeal was refused by the Tribunal.’

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In the original hearing, evidence was given that PC Griffiths says she only had sex with the man – known as Mr X – once.

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North Wales Police presenting officer Amy Clarke, said: ‘She developed an inappropriate personal relationship with a vulnerable male who she was responsible for in 2015.

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‘Miss Griffiths was tasked with being liaison officer and engaged in sexual activity with him. She agreed further that sexual activity happened on duty.’

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Miss Clarke said PC Griffiths joined the police in 2001 and was managing the man because he was an alleged victim of historic sexual offences.

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PC Griffiths admitted gross misconduct at the hearing at North Wales Police headquarters in Colwyn Bay.

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A statement from PC Griffiths said: ‘I recognise I shouldn’t have had sexual contact with Mr X on June 29, 2015. I accept gross misconduct and deeply regret that it happened.

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‘To avoid further embarrassment to everyone I have resigned forthwith from North Wales Police.’

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PC Griffiths was accused of having an ‘inappropriate association’ with the man which later ‘developed into an inappropriate sexual liaison both on and off duty’.

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The professional standards hearing was told she had ‘fallen below professional standards of integrity, authority and courtesy’ and shown ‘discreditable conduct’.

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Panel chair Susan Davies said: ‘PC Griffiths knew of Mr X’s personal and medical issues while she took part in that sexual activity, whilst on duty.

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‘She breached standards of honesty and integrity, specifically integrity. She behaved in way that was discreditable to North Wales Police.

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‘We found that conduct so serious that dismissal would be justified and therefore amounts to gross misconduct.’

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