This doesn’t surprise me, whilst in college I did silver service waitressing and one event I was called for was a Gwent Police work do. I was warned beforehand about the male officers but let’s just say I still didn’t expect the openly misogynistic comments towards me and my colleagues I received. E.g asking if I wanted to sit on one’s lap! We were swiftly told afterwards that it was best not to say anything and that it was just ‘banter’.
Also during one night out in Newport when a man was harassing me and my friends (and we suspected he had tried to put something in a friends drink) we left the bar and walked past a police car parked outside. Thinking we should let them know, we stopped and told them what had happened etc. All I remember is being so shocked that they just laughed and one of them said ‘what do you expect us to do when women are dressed like tarts’
I was a young woman in my early 20s then and I know we should’ve reported them but we didn’t as we just felt if they were emboldened enough to act like that we weren’t going to get anywhere. Why would anyone believe us??
So yeah, not surprised about Gwent police at all. Misogynist pr*cks.