A police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct after becoming involved in a row in a London bar while off duty.
PC Emilio Sabatino, based at Brent Police , faced four allegations and was formally dismissed following a Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing on Tuesday (October 18).
It heard allegations that he:
- Urinated on the floor in the toilets of a bar in London
- Misused his warrant card
- Swore at a security guard and raised his middle finger towards him
- Used a racially offensive term towards the security guard.
The PC admitted the third allegation but denied the other three. The misconduct panel found the first charge unproven but the other allegations were proved and, in their view, breached the Standard of Professional Behaviour in such a serious way that this amounted to gross misconduct.
Chief Superintendant Matt Gardner, Directorate of Professional Standards, said: “Mr Sabatino has let himself and his colleagues down as a result of off-duty behaviour.
“He has been found to use racist and abusive behaviour to a member of the public who was simply doing his job, a scenario similar to what police officers do 24/7 in their role to protect Londoners.
“We do not want officers with these behaviours in the Metropolitan police and he has been rightly dismissed with immediate effect.”
Earlier in the month a Harrow police officer was given a final warning after her behaviour was called into question.
