Trainee Thames Valley PC who made rape joke banned by police

A trainee police officer who joked about raping a colleague was told he would be sacked if he did not resign.

Former PC Kennedy Lungu said “no doesn’t really mean no” when discussing sex while training with Thames Valley Police in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.

Other vulgar statements found to have been made by the police misconduct commission were too graphic to be published.

The panel, which banned him from police work for life, said it could find no mitigating circumstances on Mr Lungu’s behalf “other than noting that he was very early in his career”.

The panel was told that a female officer was collecting her bag at the training centre, while other colleagues, including Mr Lungu, were waiting to collect their bags.

Mr Lungu told the woman to hurry up and joked that he would rape her when asked what he would do if she did not.

It was also revealed that Mr Lungu and his class, after watching a video on domestic violence, made a comment that “the woman in question deserved it”.

The panel said a colleague recalled “many times coming into class and seeing former officer Lungu talking about sex and talking about sex at lunch.”

His behavior was found to be “deliberate, intentional, targeted and planned” and “constituted abuse of women and girls”.

Mr Lungu did not attend the hearing, which was held at TVP’s headquarters in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, last week.