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Met Police officer videos toilets at work for Mermaids

136 replies

jadefinch · 23/02/2020 11:01

She's only been on Twitter for less than two weeks - she also says she's a women's coordinator for the Met - but her timeline is all pro trans tweets including praise for Peter Tatchell, support for 'rainbow crossings' and made up stats that '89% of trans people have considered suicide in the last year(!)'.

But most disturbingly, she's made various videos, seemingly for Mermaids as she's tagged them into her posts, of the men's and women's toilets where she works. She's said the point of these videos is to show what's in the toilets so trans people can feel included - THIS IS NOT WHAT A POLICE OFFICER SHOULD BE DOING.

twitter.com/katelgbtq/status/1227857714262482944?s=19

OP posts:
Lordfrontpaw · 23/02/2020 19:22

She’s a lesbian. And obsessed with ‘inclusivity’ to the point where what, every tweet mentions it. Why so obsessed with this rather than the business of doing her actual job?

I don’t give a shit if the police that turn up to an incident are far, straight or sleep with horses (actually, scratch the last one) as long as they do the job with professionals and impartiality and don’t piss about arguing the the 6”3 person with a beard who mugged me could be a woman and that I shouldn’t be horrid and assume it was a man, so can I rewrite my statement...

Oh well, she will get bitten when she says she doesn’t date women with male bodies.

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 23/02/2020 19:10

Thanks for the explanations. So, excuse my ignorance, but why on earth is a police officer hashtagging anything with 'chemsex'? What earthly reason would there be for that? Is she promoting it? Raising awareness of it? And if so, why?!

This is a question I can not answer. Perhaps she thinks the station ladies would make a good venue for a chemsex party? Plenty of room for getting ones bits and bobs out. Plus mirrors. And it’s hoseable!

Back in the bad old days, coppers used to hang around in the gents waiting for some poor sod to come in and smile at them.

If only they could find a middle ground between this and not bothering to properly investigate the suspicious deaths of young, gay men, because, chemsex party!

jay55 · 23/02/2020 19:04

I cannot imagine Aviva are happy to be linked to chemsex.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 23/02/2020 18:59

Thanks for the explanations. So, excuse my ignorance, but why on earth is a police officer hashtagging anything with 'chemsex'? What earthly reason would there be for that? Is she promoting it? Raising awareness of it? And if so, why?!

Mockersisrightasusual · 23/02/2020 18:16

Back in the bad old days, coppers used to hang around in the gents waiting for some poor sod to come in and smile at them.

How things have changed.

Al1Langdownthecleghole · 23/02/2020 18:04

So would officer clever also put film of bank vaults on Twitter if a lobby group asked?

How about stopping enabling sexual fantasies and dealing with crime?

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 23/02/2020 17:59

This is a good moment for Fair Cop and LGB Alliance to collaborate, I reckon!

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 23/02/2020 17:58

It’s a broad spectrum of mostly illegal drugs, Horse inc some that are fairly new fangled and have now been made illegal but weren’t until the laws caught up.

The new pre-exposure anti HIV drugs are thought to have contributed to the rise of the modern sex party, while it’s great that gay men are no longer living under the dark cloud of AIDS, there are fears of a resurgence of other STDs, ones that have become anti biotic resistant.

Chemsex sits at a cross section of public health and crime. It must be very challenging for police forces to tackle, in our increasingly sexualised society. Showing off the bogs to appease the trans activists seems like a terrible waste of public funds to me.

www.newscientist.com/article/2140756-what-is-chemsex-and-why-is-the-uk-government-worried-about-it/

Siameasy · 23/02/2020 17:57

OT but..Didn’t poor old Brian Paddick say something GC and then got shut down and had to retract?

Anyway I hope FairCop get hold of it because the public are paying for this nonsense and for this person to talk rubbish on Twitter

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 23/02/2020 17:50

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/12/police-officer-killer-jailed-for-life-stefano-brizzi-breaking-bad

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/15/gerald-matovu-found-guilty-murder-actor-chemsex-drug-ghb-stephen-port

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/14/stephen-port-murders-police-watchdog-completes-report

There is a real issue with trust between gay men and the U.K. police force, particularly hard to navigate within this specific subculture that embraces illegal drug use and becomes more vulnerable because of it.

This kind of stuff, along with lesbians being beaten on a London bus, is what our police forces’ LGBT specific staff should be getting to grips with. Instead they are fannying about over unkind tweets and doing guided video tours of the female lavatories.

HorseWithNoLang · 23/02/2020 17:49

.. Chemsex is a gay-sex-on-drugs cultural phenomenon thing..

Christ!

Now I know that I have to ask - illegal drugs?

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 23/02/2020 17:42

Chemsex is a gay-sex-on-drugs cultural phenomenon thing, sometimes it means parties and sometimes it’s just internet dates.

It puts some men in very vulnerable positions and men have died.

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/09/29/police-chief-boyfriend-chemsex-ghb/

Stephen Port (Serial killer) used chemsex as an excuse for having possession of dead bodies and a policeman was actually murdered by someone he met via a hook up app.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 23/02/2020 17:31

And wtf is 'chemsex'?

Whatisthisfuckery · 23/02/2020 17:29

Like I said, odd childlike language. Girls and boys toilets? Presumably these toilets are in a police station, so for adult men and women? It’s all a bit.. odd.

DuLANGMondeFOREVER · 23/02/2020 17:29

We used to have an excellent regular poster who was something quite senior in the police force. Can anyone remember her user name? I don’t like to use the @ function regularly but sometimes it’s useful!

Perhaps she is still her under a different name? It can be hard to keep track!

74NewStreet · 23/02/2020 17:28

It certainly seems aimed at those for whom the only purpose of scoping out the ladies loos would be to see some bits and bobs. Or more likely, to display their own bits and bobs to an unwilling audience 🤢
Either the silly cow is to dumb to see this, or she’s totally complicit.
Shameful.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 23/02/2020 17:25

I can screenshot, Prawn, which bit? The vids should be archived, but I can't work out the archive.it site at all.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 23/02/2020 17:25

'Getting your bits and bobs out' is just a very, very odd way to describe getting changed. Almost anybody, I would imagine, wouldn't describe it like this if they're just talking about changing clothes. Why on earth the focus on the body, on certain body parts, even?

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 23/02/2020 17:24

I have reported this unprofessional officer to the Met but I'd like a screenshot as I fear she'll delete the Tweet when she realises what a bad light she has put herself in.

I don't know how to do screenshots on my phone and would be grateful if someone else could take one.

Whatisthisfuckery · 23/02/2020 17:20

There’s a disturbingly creepy quality to those videos, like she’s aiming them at a child, or as if she’s behaving like a child on purpose herself. I’m not even going to attempt to speculate on why she did them but they get the hairs on the back of my neck up.

OverByYer · 23/02/2020 17:11

She is an embarrassment to her profession.
‘ Bits and bobs out’ ffs is she 12?

LynnSchmob · 23/02/2020 17:01

She’s a useful idiot (that we are paying for)

ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings · 23/02/2020 16:52

captainkirk has nailed it. Someone with a fetish has asked her to film in the women's toilets for them - making up a sad sad story about feeling unsafe and unincluded, of course - and PC Common-sense over here has gone along with it. I predict that the footage will not be used for savory purposes. If I were her colleague I'd be fucking livid. Some people are just spectacularly naive.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 23/02/2020 16:23

Has somebody archived her twitter feed and those vids? I'm trying to remember how to do it ...

LizzieSiddal · 23/02/2020 16:16

Wtf! It’s just all so baffling.