PC made lewd remarks about colleagues' partners

Mr Davis - not pictured - quit the day before his misconduct hearing was due to start

A police officer found to have told colleagues that he would have sex with their partners quit the day before a misconduct hearing into his conduct was due to start.

Former police constable Connor Davis, who worked for Thames Valley Police (TVP), made a host of lewd remarks about colleagues, their partners and members of the public between late 2022 and September 2023.

A three-person panel was due to sit for five days from 6 January to investigate Mr Davis' conduct but he resigned on 5 January.

He was found to have told a colleague that their partner would "get it" and described how he would like to have sex with her.

Mr Davis was found to have referred to another colleague as "fit" and, on finding out another would not be attending a night out, said: "Damn, I wanted something to look at tonight."

In another case, a colleague said Mr Davis was driving a patrol car and slowed it down after he saw a woman in another vehicle. Asked what he was doing, he said he was "just looking".

Mr Davis was challenged about his behaviour by superiors but said, "I will now have to speak in riddles", the panel found.

It said there was concern about the "scale and depth of concern both at a national and local level about this kind of behaviour perpetrated by police officers".

The panel, which included TVP's assistant chief constable Christian Bunt, found he had committed gross misconduct.

It said his behaviour was "intentional and deliberate" over a sustained period of time and he had been "less than contrite".

He would have been sacked had he not quit, the panel concluded.