PC Pamela Pritchard, 29, denies the allegations
Pamela Pritchard(Image: WALES NEWS SERVICE)
A female police officer was “mortified” at being told she had allegedly drunkenly groped two colleagues and tried to kiss an inspector during a leaving do, a misconduct hearing was told.
PC Pamela Pritchard, 29, is accused of gross misconduct for her alleged boozy behaviour during the bash at a rugby club where she was said to have “twerked” on the dance floor. She denies the allegations she faces.On Tuesday PC Pritchard told the hearing she had “no recollection” of twice putting her hands on a male officer’s groin and groping a woman colleague’s breasts on the night out.
She said: “My behaviour that evening was inappropriate I’ve never acted like that before. I’m absolutely mortified at the allegations.”The statements and the CCTV that I have seen and heard, that’s not who I am. I am not that person – I don’t recognise myself on that CCTV. I would never mean to offend anyone. I am not that kind of person, I am a good person.”The mother-of-one broke down in tears as she told the panel: “I’ve let down the police force, myself, my friends and family and most of all I’ve let down my little girl.”Please don’t think I’ve gone away and I haven’t thought about this from the moment I woke up to the moment I go to sleep.”The North Wales Police officer is also accused of trying to kiss a male inspector “causing him to pull away.”The panel heard PC Pritchard told one officer at the party: “I’m the biggest lesbian here and I’ll fight any man.”But she told the panel: “I am straight. I am not a lesbian.”PC Pritchard denies breaching standards of professional behaviour and also denies gross misconduct from the bash in March, 2024.A fellow cop, named only as PC B, claimed Pritchard groped him “out of the blue” when he was waiting to get a drink at the bar of Caernarfon Rugby Club in North Wales.He claimed: “PC Pritchard grabbed me below the belt and put her hand on my genitals outside my clothing”.”To no extent was it appropriate – I felt kind of humiliated at that point.”PC B told the misconduct hearing PC Pritchard repeated the action when he was outside in a smoking area.He claimed: “She did the same thing again. She grabbed my genitals outside my clothes and I distinctly remember her squeezing them.”He claimed that later in the evening she sat on his knee. “I remember her putting her hand around my neck and kissing me on the lips. It was not appropriate – this was in public. Her behaviour was becoming more and more unacceptable.”But PC Pritchard told the hearing: “I deny totally that I’ve made contact with his groin on purpose.”PC Pritchard’s barrister Fiona Clancy suggested PC B had been “teasing her and interfering in her love life” during the night out.The allegations state: “During the evening, you made inappropriate physical contact with two colleagues, neither of whom consented to this contact, either expressly or implied.”You used insulting and inappropriate words/language towards two colleagues.”You attempted to kiss another colleague causing him to pull away from you. This was unsolicited and inappropriate.”A disciplinary panel chaired by North Wales Assistant Chief Constable Chris Allsop were shown CCTV of PC Pritchard twerking during the night.Another female police officer, identified as “Police Constable A”, said: “PC Pritchard came up from behind me, put both her arms around my neck, then put them under my armpits and grabbed my breasts and squeezed them.”PC Pritchard denies the allegations and the hearing in Colwyn Bay police HQ continues.
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