A policewoman who made up a narrative about transphobia within the office throughout a job interview for a promotion has been discovered responsible of gross misconduct.
Disgraced Sergeant Sarah Srivastava was given a ultimate written warning after she lied that colleagues had discriminated towards a transgender officer and that she had stepped in to problem their behaviour.
In the course of the misconduct listening to, the counsel for the West Midlands Police condemned Srivastava for bringing ‘discredit to the police service’ and for undermining ‘public confidence’ within the pressure.
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Disgraced Sergeant Sarah Srivastava was given a ultimate written warning after she lied that colleagues had discriminated towards a transgender officer and that she had stepped in to problem their behaviour. A inventory picture is used above [File photo]
Srivastava hoped to be promoted into the intense organised crime unit after 27 years of unblemished service. However when requested for an instance of ‘the way you thought-about a spread of values and desires when making a choice that impacts a gaggle of individuals’, Srivastava panicked and claimed she had challenged a colleague who had made a transphobic comment to an officer after which received them to apologise.
Srivastava’s lie was uncovered when her interviewer, a detective inspector, turned up at her office and insisted on chatting with the transgender officer instantly.
A panicked Srivastava tried to cease the detective from escalating the case and warned that she had ‘barely embellished’ the story throughout the interview.
However after additional questioning, she lastly admitted that she had invented your entire story.
The disciplinary panel discovered that Srivastava had ‘breached three requirements {of professional} behaviour and was responsible of gross misconduct’.
Final evening, Srivastava informed the MoS: ‘I remorse mendacity, it was foolish. I simply received caught up within the second.’
