A woman firearms officer who endured a year-long campaign of sexual taunts and innuendo from male colleagues has won her sex discrimination case.
PC Barbara Lynford, the only woman in an 18-strong team at Gatwick Airport, was seen as a "threat" and so was singled out and humiliated by her fellow officers.
But that's not all by far-
Armed officers on patrol allegedly used their radios to report sightings of pretty women to each other, using the code MILF for "mothers I'd like to ****".
The term GILF was said to have been used to describe attractive grandmothers, and the area where female cabin crew were dropped off was dubbed the "s***** patch".
Male police slept on the job, faked patrol reports, watched an X-rated TV channel and ran a forfeit system where they had to buy each other doughnuts as a penalty for leaving guns lying around, an employment tribunal heard.
The only ones professional enough to be armed....
During the tribunal, her male colleagues were likened to the overweight, doughnut-eating policeman Chief Wiggum in The Simpsons.
Officers who committed the most serious breaches had to buy the whole team a cake, the tribunal heard. One was said to have been forfeited in such a way after leaving his sub-machine gun in the canteen.
There appears to have been no trace of a responsible adult among the armed cops.
Former PC Toby Gough also told the tribunal that he had seen colleagues watching the X-rated channel in the gym and TV room at the station.
He claimed that officers not only left guns unattended but also faked patrol reports and slept while on duty.
And he said the time some officers spent on breaks was "scandalous", saying some officers spent more time in the canteen than on patrol.
Sounds like the police the UK is familiar with then.
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