[Metro UK] HT AOS. She seems niceA detective who would break wind and use strong language around the police station could lose her job. DC Claire Fitzpatrick, 44, is accused of repeatedly using the word c**t and breaking wind in front of other officers.
In a bid to prevent herself being fired she said that the behaviour was part of a ‘culture of banter' at her village police station in Bedwas, south Wales.
She is accused of:
Farting outside her sergeant's office
Telling a suspect "you're driving like a c**t";
Asking a junior colleague if he wanted an affair with a "fatter, ugly, older woman";
Asking another colleague in a busy station for thrush cream
She said that swearing was ‘just the nature of the place' and that ‘c**t' had replaced ‘f**k' as her word of choice. DC Fitzpatrick admitted breaking wind outside the sergeant's office but insisted that it wasn't deliberate. She said: ‘I would joke about it. Sometimes I would speak like the character Borat, or use a silly voice to say: "Rather out than in".' DC Fitzpatrick, who has served on the force for 22 years, faces 25 counts of inappropriate behaviour.