Thames Valley PC trainee who made a rape joke was banned by police

A trainee police officer who joked about raping a colleague has been told he would have been sacked if he had not already resigned.

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

Other vulgar comments he is alleged to have made by a police misconduct panel are too explicit to publish.

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

The panel was told that a female officer collected her bag from the training center while other colleagues, including Mr Lungu, were waiting to collect theirs.

Mr Lungu told the woman to hurry up and when asked what he would do if she didn’t, he joked that he would rape her.

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

The panel said a colleague recalled that “often arriving in class would find former officer Lungu talking about sex and talking about sex at lunch.”

It was found that his behavior was “deliberate, deliberate, purposeful and planned” and that it “amounted to abuse of women and girls”.

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