Senior Met cop allowed to keep £100,000-a-year job despite being caught using prostitutes
A SENIOR cop was allowed to keep his job despite using prostitutes, it was revealed.
Payments of hundreds of pounds to sex workers were uncovered when anti-corruption officers seized his phone over an unrelated matter which was later dropped.
But instead of going before a gross misconduct board where he could have been sacked, he was given “words of advice”.
The soft treatment is in contrast to how junior officers are routinely sacked if found to be using prostitutes.
The top cop is still working for the Met on a salary of more than £100,000 a year.
Details have never been made public despite first surfacing three years ago.
And the scandal is likely to undermine new commissioner Sir Mark Rowley’s current clampdown on rogue cops.
A source told The Sun: “This officer should never have been allowed to stay.
“He was notorious for coming on to women and had treatment for sex addiction. This blows a massive hole in the commissioner’s war on wrong ’uns.”
Ex-Met chief superintendent Phil Flower told the Daily Mail: “It is extremely surprising that a more robust decision was not taken in this matter.
“It should have gone to a misconduct board which, if properly informed, would have imposed a much more significant penalty.”