Dave’s manager should be fired, and his manager too, and Dave’s colleagues should be fired, and the whole UK police force needs to change the way they discipline and recruit. Every police force attracts creeps and criminals who apply to it. Look at how 16yr old Putin walked into Russia’s security service to ask how he could get a job. A Mumsnet teacher says every year the bullies leaving her school apply to the police.
The police force needs to accept and expert that perverts and bullies are applying and to make efforts to stop them getting accepted. They must psychologically profile and screen out bullies and perverts BEFORE they start work. If they can’t do this, it’s better to have a female only force than one made of rapists.
And by the way…
We define ‘bad apple’ as “someone who creates problems or causes trouble for others; specifically, a member of a group whose behavior negatively affects the remainder of the group." This term is often misunderstood to mean that a troublemaker's behavior is not representative of the whole group, but the proverb this term originally comes from is "one bad apple ruins the whole barrel."
By the time you see one bad apple, the whole barrel already has a problem…