'Voyeuristic' Met Police officer climbed toilet to peek on colleagues in drunken cubicle clinch

A Metropolitan Police officer who told his colleague 'What are you good at, other than shagging people on the team?' has been found not guilty of misconduct after a tribunal. PC Muhammed Miah was cleared of grabbing his colleague's bottom during a night out in North London, however the panel heard evidence he climbed a toilet to spy on his colleagues getting off in the cubicle.

The complainant, known as Officer A, experienced pressure on her bum at a Ping Pong bar in January 2020, but the misconduct panel found she had not complained at the time and that witnesses evidence was unreliable because they had been drinking since 3:30pm at Joker Bar in Chapel Market in Angel. A complaint was only made on the woman's behalf two years later, the panel heard.

PC Miah admitted making the 'shagging people on the team' comment, while the panel also found he went on to say 'You’re shit, you don’t know what you’re doing, do ya?'. Officer A made a complaint about the comments at the time and PC Miah was asked to apologise, however the panel found it was a 'singular incident of a lack of courtesy' and did not amount to misconduct.

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PC Miah also denied harassing Officer A by waiting outside work to walk her to Angel station. While the panel found her 'reliable and unexaggerated' when giving evidence about alleged 'unwanted and persistent attention' , it concluded she did not 'clearly communicate' this and PC Miah stopped once he realised it was not reciprocal. Like all the allegations, this was also not proven.

The panel did, however, make note of the so-called 'cubicle incident' at the Ping Pong bar on January 20, 2020, when Officer A and a male colleague entered a downstairs toilet cubicle 'with the intention of engaging in some sort of sexual activity'.

They said: "The Panel finds that Officer Miah knew precisely who had entered this cubicle as he had been told by DC McCann who had gone upstairs in Pong to find him. The Panel finds that Officer Miah’s action in climbing on and jumping from the sink to cling on to the side of the cubicle to see what was going on was voyeuristic, unnecessary and unpleasant."

With all the allegations against PC Miah found not proven, the panel did not make any judgement on misconduct. It also questioned how the allegations had surfaced, made on behalf of the female complainant without any consultation with her and in an apparent attempt to cause cause ‘trouble and professional embarrassment' for PC Miah.

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