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Covid: Drink driving PC Tasia Stephens dismissed after lockdown party

BBC News Published 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.

Pc Tasia Stephens dismissed from South Wales Police

A police officer has been dismissed from her force after she attended a house party during lockdown and then later the same night crashed her car into a shop while over the drink-drive limit. Pc Tasia Stephens, 24, was also placed on the barred list preventing her from working elsewhere in the profession after her actions were said to have the potential to undermine confidence in the police. On Tuesday, a misconduct panel in Pencoed, Bridgend, told the South Wales Police officer she had chosen to ignore lockdown restrictions in place at a time when adhering to them “was nationally important” and while she was still serving her probation period.

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