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image captionPC Tasia Stephens, of South Wales Police, is dismissed after admitting gross misconduct
A police officer who attended a house party during lockdown and then crashed her car into a shop while drunk has been dismissed.
PC Tasia Stephens, 24, lost her South Wales Police job and was barred from working in the profession again.
At a tribunal, PC Stephens admitted gross misconduct, after attending the party in Treorchy last April, when Wales was under a strict lockdown.
She has since been sentenced after admitting drink driving.
Case presenter Barney Branston told the hearing at Pencoed in Bridgend, PC Stephens went to the party in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, despite having an "expectation to enforce the law" regarding the Covid restrictions.