
A serving PCSO has been arrested on suspicion of outraging public decency after being filmed showing to commit a intercourse act on a park bench.
The Metropolitan Police mentioned it was ‘completely horrified and saddened’ by the incident which was delivered to its consideration simply earlier than 11.30pm on Wednesday.
The police group help officer, who's connected to the Met’s Roads and Transport Policing Command, stays in custody.
In a video that went viral on social media, the PCSO may be seen sitting on a inexperienced bench together with his police cap by his aspect in a park believed to be in south London.
He then seems to be over his shoulder to test his environment earlier than watching one thing on his cell phone and committing the act.
The incident was filmed by a member of the general public who, when confronting the officer, managed to notice his badge quantity permitting him to be tracked down.
The Met Police mentioned investigators labored by means of the night time to establish the officer who was then arrested within the early hours of yesterday morning.
Commander Kyle Gordon, who's accountable for the Roads and Transport Policing Command, mentioned: ‘I do know that everybody will probably be completely shocked by this video. I'm completely horrified and saddened by incidents equivalent to this, as are all first rate officers and employees.


‘They're opposite to every part we stand for.
‘I wish to reassure everybody that we're working as quick as we probably can to establish the total circumstances of what happened.
‘As quickly as we turned conscious of the video simply earlier than midnight we acted instantly.
Officers labored all through the night time and a serving member of police employees was arrested within the early hours of this morning and brought into custody.’
The Met’s Directorate of Skilled Requirements is main an investigation into the incident, and a referral has been made to the Unbiased Workplace for Police Conduct.
Gordon added investigators had been limiting particulars shared with the general public, however would give an replace at ‘important levels of the inquiry’.
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