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Huntingdon police officer – and army veteran – faces ‘inappropriate sexual comments’ misconduct hearing
A Cambridgeshire police officer – who joined the force in 2020 at Huntingdon – is to face a misconduct hearing for allegedly making “inappropriate sexual comments” to female colleagues. A brief notice issued by Cambridgeshire police describes the officer as ‘former PC 692 Ryan Rolfe”.
The hearing is be held from Wednesday 2nd October 2024 to Tuesday 8th October 2024 at Lysander House, Tempsford Hall, Sandy.
The police statement says that the allegation is that between October 2021 and September 2022 Rolfe made “inappropriate sexual comments to female police officers whilst on duty”.
The misconduct panel will hear claims that Rolfe “breached the following standard of professional behaviour: authority respect and courtesy and discreditable conduct”.
Rolfe is an army veteran and served between 2015 and 2019 but left for family reasons.
In a later magazine article, he said he joined the police because “I’ve got friends who are officers and my now brother-in-law is also a police officer. I was talking with those people to get more of an idea of what it was actually like to be a police officer”.
The same article explained that skills as a veteran were useful to serving police officers.
“Ex-service people have a lot of hazard perception and situational awareness,” he said.
“That comes in very useful, especially on response teams, where you’re going into live incidents where one moment, it can be calm as anything before the flight trigger then leads it to becoming a violent incident. We’re very good at picking up on that.
“I find that there’s a lot of respect for veterans on the job, because of what they’ve done previously and also, because they understand we have a lot of life experience.”
