A police officer has been dismissed after ignoring a woman’s suicide call and deciding to take a trip to Homebase to buy a mat for his new hot tub, which he claimed his wife needed.
A police officer has been dismissed after ignoring a woman’s suicide call and deciding to take a trip to Homebase to buy a mat for his new hot tub.
He admitted the allegations, claiming his wife needed the hot tub following a ‘distressing medical episode’ in 2020. He arrived at the scene ‘five to 10 minutes later’ than he would have done had he not made the journey.Instead he continued his trip to Homebase before attending to the incident later on.
The report states: ‘He did not know of course that he would get a call to attend an emergency while on his way to Homebase to collect it but he had the opportunity to accept the call and attend to the person in distress.
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