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Police officer keeps job after urinating in Urban Outfitters

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Updated 07:42 25 Aug 2022 GMT+1Published 07:41 25 Aug 2022 GMT+1

Police officer keeps job after urinating in Urban Outfitters

The cop initially lied about it and she was found guilty of gross misconduct

Jake Massey

Jake Massey

A police officer has kept her job after drunkenly urinating in Urban Outfitters.

Yes, you ready that correctly.

A disciplinary panel found probationer PC Amelia Shearer guilty of gross misconduct following the incident in the York branch of the retailer last September and issued her with a final written warning.

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Urban Outfitters forked out £492 to have the cubicle professionally cleaned and the store's nine fitting rooms had to be closed afterwards, the hearing at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium had heard.

Shearer was off-duty at the time and initially lied about what she had done.

Shearer denied drunkenly urinating in the store.
PURPLE MARBLES / Alamy Stock Photo

The panel's legally qualified chair, Ogheneruona Iguyovwe, said allegations of discreditable conduct and breaches of honesty and integrity were proven. But after several hours of deliberating yesterday (Wednesday 24 August) afternoon, the panel pulled back from ruling she should be fired immediately.

Iguyovwe said: "She is 24-years-old. There is scope for her to be rehabilitated, there is scope for her to set the record straight and to begin on a new path."

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Shearer - who joined Cleveland Police as a junior in November 2019 and had been praised for her performance since then - had numerous opportunities in interviews to come clean about what happened, the panel said.

And while she was under investigation for criminal damage - a charge the Crown Prosecution Service chose not to take to court – she lied under caution, the panel found.

Nevertheless, she will keep her job but the outcome of a final written warning, lasting for five years, was a serious sanction, Iguyovwe said.

During the three-day hearing, the Middlesbrough-based officer strenuously denied the allegations that she urinated in the store and that she lied to her boss afterwards.

In less than four hours, she and a friend had a bottomless brunch at a bar, downing half a bottle of prosecco and three cocktails, then she had a Jack Daniels and Coke at another venue, before going to Urban Outfitters.

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A member of staff gave evidence to say Shearer asked if the store had toilets, was told 'no', but immediately went into a cubicle without any clothes to try on.

The employee radioed for his manager and when the officer came out, he and his boss saw a pool of what smelled like urine on the floor, and she hurriedly left the shop but was tracked down later in the city by police.

She denied urinating but did acknowledge she and her friend were 'loud and giggly'.

She claimed to have used the changing rooms to adjust her bra – an account she did not give her superior, Inspector Christian Duree, when she spoke to him the next day on the phone.

Shearer explained that she only gave him an 'abridged version' of events, but the force accused her of lying to him, and in subsequent formal interviews and the panel agreed.

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She said she'd given her inspector an 'abridged version of events'.
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Shearer, who studied a Masters in criminal investigations before joining the force, wept when she heard the outcome of the hearing.

Before the decision was made, Olivia Checa-Dover, representing the force, told the panel its findings that the probationer had been dishonest meant she was now 'undeployable' as an officer.

As she lied while being questioned on oath about what happened at the store, that would have to be disclosed to defence lawyers in any future investigations she carried out, the barrister said.

Joan Smith, for Shearer, had urged the panel to take the unusual step of not immediately sacking her given her good references, including comments from her inspector about her progress during her first year where he described her as 'spot-on'.

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Smith said: "She has the potential to be exceptional.

"There is a place for her in Cleveland Police and there is the potential for her to flourish in this police force with the appropriate guidance."

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Jake Massey
Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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