A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after he had sex with a trainee officer in a back street close to King’s Cross station.
PC Ridhwaan Zina had been appointed as a street duties tutor within the Met, with a strict warning against sexual contact with junior colleagues.
But on a drunken night out in Angel, PC Zina kissed one trainee officer before leaving the pub with another.
A misconduct hearing was told the officer bought condoms after he and trainee officer Z left the Three Johns pub in Angel at the end of the night out on August 26, 2022.
They attempted to rent a hotel room but did not have enough money, and then had sex on the ground in a “secluded” back street near King’s Cross.
The misconduct hearing was told the trainee officer, who had been drinking heavily, was “disorientated and upset” after the encounter.
A few days later, she made a complaint that the sex with PC Zina had not been consensual, leading to the officer’s arrest.
Ultimately, he did not face any criminal charges but the report led to misconduct proceedings.
The hearing was told PC Zina joined the Met in 2019, and he signed a “statement of expectations” covering his conduct as a tutor on August 4, 2022, just a few weeks before the sexual encounter with his junior colleague.
“PC Zina was in a position of authority,” said Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor.
“He was told clearly about the responsibilities arising from that position, and the restrictions on his personal behaviour which it required of him. He signed what amounts to an attestation that he recognised and accepted those responsibilities and restrictions, which amounted to lawful orders from a more senior officer.
“He chose, less than a month after doing so, flatly to disregard those responsibilities, restrictions and orders.
“Having sex with a trainee, even one who is not under his direct authority, was as plain a violation of those orders, and as plain a potential - if not actual - conflict of interest, as can be imagined.
“To do so in a public place – even one which was selected to be at least somewhat out of sight of passers-by – compounds the misconduct significantly.”
PC Zina resigned from the Met in early July, but with a notice period stretching into August.
He faced an accelerated misconduct hearing on July 18, which concluded he should be dismissed without notice.
