A Thames Valley Police officer has been dismissed after referring to a female colleague as ‘sugar t***’ and suggesting another was a ‘sex worker’.

Detective Sergeant Charlie Ellis, who was an officer for 18 years, was dismissed without notice after a police misconduct panel earlier this month.

It was found that his behaviour in late 2022 and early 2023 constituted ‘gross misconduct’ after he made inappropriate comments to his female colleagues.

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The panel made a decision that ‘dismissal without notice is the only proportionate and necessary outcome’ after hearing the facts.

During the panel, it was heard that on December 7, 2022, Ellis had a meeting with a female colleague who was due to join his team and he would be her line manager.

During the meeting, he compared it to being ‘akin to a first date’.

He then followed the meeting up with a email, again referring to the meeting as a fate.

On January 3, 2023, he repeated the comment in front of the whole team.

Shortly after her first shift, Ellis took photos of her for an identity card with his personal phone which amounted to misconduct as officers are not allowed to use private phones in identified areas of police buildings.

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Additionally, he requested she send him further ‘for the bank’ -  implicit to masturbating.

Ellis said he had ‘made it clear’ that the use of the expression was ‘wrong and that he was sorry’.

He said it as a ‘joke and thought that it was received as a joke’  because his colleague laughed at the time.

The officer, when speaking to a different female colleague, also asked if women have their breasts massaged as well as referring to them as ‘sugar t***’.

He also said to her: “You’re fine with me telling them about the time you made yourself available to me as a sex worker, aren’t you?” in front of the team."

Additionally, to another colleague, Ellis was caught saying: “Why are you so f******’ incompetent?”

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Concluding the misconduct hearing, the panel wrote: “We reach that view with regret because this officer has given public service for several years.

“However, the public in our view will not tolerate a police force that continues to accommodate officers who have behaved as this officer has.

“Ellis is an experienced officer who has been proved to have breached the above standards of professional behaviour and the proven facts behind those breaches are so serious that the public would expect nothing less than dismissal without notice.”