A Merseyside Police officer who made sexual advances towards domestic abuse victims has been sacked.
Michael McMillan, who worked in the force’s Family Crime Investigation Unit, had already pleaded guilty to five counts of misconduct at Liverpool crown court, where he is due to be sentenced next month.
But today the PC faced an internal disciplinary hearing where Chief Constable Sir John Murphy slammed him as an officer of the “worst kind”.
In January McMillan, from Crosby, pleaded guilty to five allegations that he “willfully misconducted himself by making contact with a member of the public… who he had met in the course of his duty as a Police Constable, for his own sexual purposes”.
Today’s hearing, at Gardner Systems in Wavertree, was held to decide whether those offences amounted to a breach of the Standards of Professional Behaviour, and what the officer’s punishment should be as a result.
Mr McMillan – a father of two who had worked for Merseyside Police since 2003 – did not attend the hearing, but a Police Federation representative, acting on his behalf, said he pleaded guilty to the allegations.
The hearing was also told that the 32-year-old was “ashamed” of his actions, and offered no mitigation.
After a short adjournment the hearing, which lasted around 25 minutes, was concluded with Mr Murphy offering a damning verdict on the PC and his actions.
Slamming the disgraced officer for undermining the good work carried out every day by Merseyside Police, he said: “This officer, Constable McMillan, is an officer of the very worst kind. He has utterly betrayed the trust of the public and, more importantly, the trust of five women who, when at their most vulnerable, he preyed upon for his own sexual gratification.”
Revealing that he felt “sick to the stomach and angry” when he read of PC McMillan’s actions, he added: “The evidence is overwhelming… there can be no doubt on the basis of the evidence that this officer’s misconduct is gross misconduct of the worst kind.”
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Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/