Vile conversations between police officers about if they’d have sex with suspects

Police officers have been recorded apparently discussing if they would have sex with suspects and dragging them ‘down the stairs’.

Unsuspecting officers at Norfolk Constabulary can be heard debating whether a protestor they arrested is ‘hot’ and laughing about another suspect who was ‘pushed’ to the ground.

The shocking audio comes from the Gemma Barnes, 36, whose body camera was confiscated after she was arrested at Bethel Street Police Station in Norwich on January 14, 2023.

Officers did not realise it was still recording and for the next four hours it captured their rants, jokes and conversations.

Metro has already reported that the body cam recorded one female officer saying she ‘illegally’ stops and searches black females, and a male copper talking about a sex act in a massage parlour.

Now this newspaper has been given more than hour of the footage picked up at the police station, revealing more of their lurid and derogatory conversations.

Officers talk about if they’d have sex with suspects

Police men and women at Norfolk Constabulary can be heard making sex jokes.

Discussing a female suspect, one woman officer asks the others: ‘do you think [name] is hot or not?’.

A male officer asks others ‘I mean, would you?’ in an apparent reference to whether they would have sex with the individual.

A male officer also says: ‘I’m trying to work out if they’re fit or not.’

The subject of this discussion – who we are not naming – told us: ‘I am completely shocked that people we are paying to keep our streets safe are using their time to discuss whether they would have sex with suspects or not.

‘I already have little faith in the law, now I already have even less faith. They really should be even more careful.’

Later on in the recording, when a male copper is apparently accessing a file related to Gemma Barnes, he is heard making a double entendre about being ‘in Gemma Barnes’.

Other officers can be heard making mocking vomiting sounds.

Police laugh about suspect who they ‘sent flying’ onto the road

The footage came to light after Gemma and other protestors delivered a petition calling for a man to be charged with killing a pigeon.

The group were ‘pushed out’ of the station, leading to her arrest after she challenged an officer she said pushed her into a busy road.

Video shows Gemma apparently being shoved and falling back into the street.

The officers being recorded appear to enjoy watching back footage of the altercation.

One policewoman says she is ‘just warming myself up for a nice treat’ when accessing the footage.

Discussing the police bodycam video, one officer says: ‘I’ll be at home and you’ll be in custody, bitch.’

There then appears to be laughs as they watch an officer ‘push’ Gemma into the road and joke about how easily she’d ‘gone down’.

‘She went down like Christiano Ronaldo,’ one said.

 A male officer adds: ‘I like how you’re so committed, you fucking send Gemma Barnes flying and then you’re like, “right, next protester”.’

Another officer said: ‘When I saw her fly on the floor, I sort of closed my eyes and drove off.’

A copper replies: “Over her?”.

A poliecman can be heard saying ‘in which case it was a missed opportunity’.

Describing his treatment of Gemma, one calls it a ‘reverse old-school custody’, to which a male officer responds: ‘It was, dragging her down the stairs, come on bitch’.

Provocative language comes up on numerous occasions in the footage.

A male officer refers to someone as a ‘silly bitch’.

A female officer also says ‘I hate Gemma Barnes’.

‘Creative’ police statements

At least one officer appears to make concerning comments about potentially exaggerating written police statements over the altercation with protestors.

An officer tells a colleague he better ‘spin-the-wheel out’ because he thinks ‘it’s gunna be one of them sort of statements’.

In a separate conversation, an officer says: ‘It’s fine, I’ve just got to write a creative statement.’

‘The police are supposed to be impartial’

Gemma,  who got the camera back 11 months later, told Metro she never expected to find such damning material on the body cam.

The animal rights activist said: ‘I was shocked but not surprised. When I played it on my laptop, I thought it had been wiped.

‘I know these are the sort of conversations they have. I was shocked and I was angry and I was disgusted, but I wasn’t surprised.’

Gemma added: ‘The whole thing is deplorable, the police are supposed to be impartial.’

A charge of public nuisance against Gemma was later dropped and she was acquitted at Norfolk Magistrates’ Court for a Section 5 public order offense.

Gemma is now suing Norfolk Constabulary for wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution, assault and battery, and trespass to goods.

A Norfolk Constabulary spokesperson said they had reviewed the footage and considered 17 aspects of a single complaint.

They said: ‘Following that investigation, a number of matters were addressed through the appropriate misconduct processes.

‘We also reviewed arrest and stop and search records for the officers involved and found no wider evidence of discriminatory behavior. This investigation is currently subject to a complainant’s right to review with the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

‘Part of the footage currently being circulated on social media has not previously been provided to the Constabulary in its current format and we are therefore further reviewing this. As a matter of fairness, we will not comment further on this while that assessment is ongoing.

‘We know that some of the content currently being shared will undermine public confidence in policing. People rightly expect high standards from police officers and staff, and some of the content being circulated falls short of what the public would expect to hear.’

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