A woman's policing career hangs in the balance after a disciplinary panel found she urinated in a clothes shop fitting room while drunk off-duty. PC Amelia Shearer wept as the independent panel gave a gross misconduct judgment.
It followed the incident in an Urban Outfitters store last September which the Cleveland Police probationer had strenuously denied the allegations. An inspector within the force said, from his experience, she was "an excellent officer".
The three-day hearing was told how, in less than four hours, she had a bottomless brunch at a bar, downing half a bottle of prosecco and three cocktails. She then had a Jack Daniels and coke at another venue before going to the shop in York.
