An off duty police officer was spared prison after admitting he assaulted a drunk woman while she was walking home alone.
PC Oliver Banfield, from West Midlands The police received a curfew and had to pay £ 680 Leicester Crown Court on Friday.
At a January hearing, he admitted an attack by beating Emma Homer, 37.
Labor MP Harriet Harman criticized the phrase as “the system fails women”.
She tweeted, “The cop attacks a woman who goes home alone after dark. Must have been terrifying to her, but not a prison sentence. He continues to post. @WMPolice (West Midlands Police) needs to check this out.
“This is evidence that the system is failing women and protecting men if necessary.”
Banfield, 25, was “discharged from the civil service” following the attack and has now been suspended pending an investigation into gross misconduct.
The court imposed a 14-week curfew preventing him from leaving the house between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., and ordered him to pay £ 500 in compensation, £ 95 victim surcharge and £ 85 court costs.
The attack occurred in the early hours of July 26th last year in Bidford-on-Avon. Warwickshire.
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Video surveillance played in court showed Banfield grabbing his victim around the neck and trying to pull her to the ground as she walked home.
Ms. Homer said she believed he was fulfilling “a violent cop-film fantasy”.
In a victim impact statement, she said it took “more than 30 hours for an officer to make a telephone statement,” “nine days for an officer to visit her,” and “eight weeks for an officer to run the house” . Inquiries at home “.
The force has since apologized personally, saying that their “initial response to the attack report was not as quick as it should have been”.
Ms. Homer said she suffered “anxiety, insomnia and stress” which “was compounded by the slow response of the Warwickshire Police”.
“I often wonder if the impact of the attack would have been as severe if my attacker wasn’t a police officer,” she said.
“During the attack, when I was getting to safety, I was certain that this drunk man was fulfilling a violent cop-movie fantasy.
“Insulted in misogynistic slang, grabbed by the neck and forced to the ground on a dark street by a drunk man a foot taller than me is terrifying, but then to find out that he was a cop shattered my belief system its core. “
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) initially decided not to charge the officer, but changed its mind after the Women’s Justice Center intervened.
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West Midlands Police Deputy Chief Vanessa Jardine said: “Oliver Banfield was banned from public police duties following the attack and during the Warwickshire Police investigation.
“In order to protect the criminal process, we were unable to conduct our own investigations into misconduct until it was completed.
“Now the conviction has passed, our investigation is ongoing and PC Banfield is charged with gross misconduct and is currently suspended.
“We understand the strength of the feeling that surrounds the desperately sad death of Sarah Everard and concerns about women’s safety, but it would not be appropriate for us to comment further at this point.
“Our job is to protect the public who can trust us. We therefore keep all our officials at the highest level and will take appropriate action against anyone whose action is below expectations.”
Police and Criminal Investigation Commissioner David Jamieson said he had asked the police chief to brief him on the case.