A serving Thames Valley Police officer has been charged in connection with a racially-aggravated incident in Oxford.

PC Georgia Williams, who is based at Bicester police station, was charged today (May 22) with three counts of alleged racially aggravated battery.

She has also been charged with one count of alleged racially aggravated threatening behaviour intending to cause someone to fear or to provoke violence.

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The charges are in connection with an incident on Walton Street in Oxford on 17 December last year.

She has been released on bail to appear at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on 22 June.

PC Williams is currently suspended from the police force and she was not on duty at the time of the alleged incident.