A female police officer drunkenly groped two colleagues and tried to kiss an inspector during a leaving do, a misconduct hearing has heard.
PC Pamela Pritchard, 29, told the hearing today that she had ‘no recollection’ of her alleged antics during a boozy party where she ‘twerked’ on the dancefloor at the Caernarfon Rugby Club, in North Wales.
The North Wales Police officer is accused of ‘humiliating’ a male colleague by twice putting her hands on his groin, as well as groping a female officer’s breasts.
The mother-of-one allegedly told an officer during the party in March 2024 ‘I’m the biggest lesbian here and I’ll fight any man’. But she told the panel ‘I’m straight’.
PC Pritchard broke down in tears as she told how she had let ‘the force, my friends, family, and my little girl down’, but she insisted she was ‘a good person’.
She denies breaching standards of professional behaviour and gross misconduct.
She said: ‘My behaviour that evening was inappropriate I’ve never acted like that before. I’m absolutely mortified at the allegations.
‘The statements and the CCTV that I have seen and heard that’s not who I am.. I am not that person – I don’t recognise myself on that CCTV.
‘I would never mean to offend anyone. I am not that kind of person I am a good person.’
She added: ‘Please don’t think I’ve gone away and I haven’t thought about this from the moment I woke up to the moment I go to sleep.’
She is also accused of trying to kiss a male inspector ‘causing him to pull away.’
A fellow officer, named only as PC B, said PC Pritchard groped him ‘out of the blue’ when he was waiting to get a drink at the bar.
He said: ‘PC Pritchard grabbed me below the belt and put her hand on my genitals outside my clothing.
‘To no extent was it appropriate – I felt kind of humiliated at that point.’
PC B told the misconduct hearing PC Pritchard repeated the action when he was outside in a smoking area.
He said: ‘She did the same thing again. She grabbed my genitals outside my clothes and I distinctly remember her squeezing them.’
He said that later in the evening she sat on his knee.
‘I remember her putting her hand around my neck and kissing me on the lips,’ PC B said.
‘It was not appropriate – this was in public. Her behaviour was becoming more and more unacceptable.’
But PC Pritchard told the hearing: ‘I deny totally that I’ve made contact with his groin on purpose.’
PC Pritchard’s barrister Fiona Clancy suggested PC B had been ‘teasing her and interfering in her love life’ during the night out.
The charges state: ‘During the evening, you made inappropriate physical contact with two colleagues, neither of whom consented to this contact, either expressly or implied.
‘You used insulting and inappropriate words/language towards two colleagues.
‘You attempted to kiss another colleague causing him to pull away from you. This was unsolicited and inappropriate.’
A disciplinary panel chaired by North Wales Assistant Chief Constable Chris Allsop were shown CCTV of PC Pritchard twerking during the night.
Another female police officer, identified as ‘Police Constable A’, said: ‘PC Pritchard came up from behind me, put both her arms around my neck, then put them under my armpits and grabbed my breasts and squeezed them.’
PC Pritchard denies the allegations and the hearing in Colwyn Bay police HQ continues.
