'Predatory' police officer sacked over racist and inappropriate behaviour to NINE female colleagues

A 'predatory' police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct following incidents of racist, sexual and inappropriate behaviour towards nine female colleagues. PC Christopher Tierney, 35, was dismissed without notice by Lancashire Constabulary at a professional misconduct hearing on Friday (May 20).

The hearing was not a criminal case. PC Tierney, who has worked as a traffic officer in recent years, sent racist, abusive and other inappropriate messages to one female officer who he had a 'toxic' relationship with, the hearing was told.

Content included racist ethnic, religious and terrorist stereotypes, emojis and written phrases, LancsLive reports. In other incidents, he behaved inappropriately to eight other female officers, by sexual or emotional behaviour or messages.

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They were junior, younger officers and PC Tierney abused the power imbalance between him and them in pursuing relationships, the hearing ruled. The nine female officers were referred to as PCs A, B, C, D, E etc at the hearing.

PC Tierney often contacted the women on Facebook or WhatsApp, typically asking them to meet him for a coffee at McDonald's. He described one officer as 'hot' and another as the 'hottest girl on the team'. He kissed some of them and started or attempted to start relationships with some, creating friction at work.

He used a Lancashire Police internal telephone directory to get individual female officer's contact details and breached other police working procedures too. The police misconduct hearing began on Wednesday when the details of messages and other evidence against PC Tierney were discussed.

PC Tierney accepted the basic facts of evidence