Two cops who stopped singer Tallia Storm and requested her for an image have received a £50,000 payout after they bought punished for the picture.
A video appeared on TikTok in March 2024 which confirmed PC Steven Jones and PC Greg Tunnock going as much as the singer to get a photograph whereas in Edinburgh, however the officers had their authorisation to hold firearms completely revoked because of this, they had been then transferred out of the Operational Companies Division.
The cops stated they’d secured their automobile and solely left it for a minute, and that they’d approached the singer for a photograph to indicate that Police Scotland may work together with the neighborhood in a constructive method.
Nonetheless, their superiors had been frightened that the officers stopping to take an image with a feminine movie star could possibly be seen as sexist they usually had their authorisation revoked.
An employment tribunal discovered that there was nothing sexist about what the cops had finished, noting that Tallia Storm ‘had welcomed and been delighted with the engagement’.
The tribunal discovered that each officers psychological well being had suffered considerably on account of their remedy, which concerned them being made to do menial duties and at one level had been ‘humiliated in entrance of their colleagues’ after they had been ordered to cease delivering ammunition as a result of they had been now not authorised to make use of firearms.
PC Jones will obtain compensation price £24,800 whereas PC Tunnock will probably be paid £23,824.
The employment tribunal discovered that the officers had been discriminated towards due to their intercourse, with employment decide Amanda Jones saying: “The claimants had been instantly discriminated towards due to their intercourse by the respondent by completely withdrawing their firearms authorisation and by insisting on their switch from the operational providers division.”
The decision on the 2 officers was that they ‘got here throughout as real, credible and dependable’, with PC Tunnock talked about particularly for the way in which he ‘answered questions in a very simple method’.
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