Officer faces sack over ‘unreasonable force' claims

A Slough police officer could be sacked after being accused of breaching police behaviour standards

A police officer could be sacked after being accused of pepper-spraying two people in the face and using abusive language.

Constable Sulaiman Hamid Taj Ahmed, based at Slough police station, allegedly used "unreasonable and disproportionate force" on two separate occasions.

PC Ahmed now faces a gross misconduct hearing, due to begin at Thames Valley Police's headquarters in Kidlington, Oxfordshire on Monday.

The hearing is expected to last for four days.

It is claimed that while on duty on 8 August 2022, PC Ahmed used spray so close to a woman’s face "and/or failed to provide proper aftercare" that it breached police behaviour standards.

During the same incident, it is alleged that he "used abusive language which was inappropriate and offensive" which also breached police behaviour standards.

PC Ahmed is said to have done the same to another person in a separate incident on 9 January 2023.

The charges are "so serious that together they amount to gross misconduct" – meaning that if proved he could be dismissed.