Police sergeant, 41, who had sex with a pub landlady he met while on duty and sent sexual messages to an 18-year-old barmaid then messaged a colleague saying ‘Odds on me sh*****g her’ is sacked

• Ricki Vaughan met a landlady while in uniform discussing a charity BBQ
• The Hertfordshire officer met up with her on two occasions and had sex
• He also exchanged texts with a barmaid, 18, and joked about her with colleagues
• He tried to form relationships with four women he met as a police officer

PS Ricki Vaughan has been sacked for inappropriate relationships with members of the public

A police sergeant who had sex with a pub landlady he met while on duty and tried to start a relationship with an 18-year-old barmaid has been sacked.

PS Ricki Vaughan, 41, from Hertfordshire, went on two dates with the landlady after he drove to her pub in a police car to discuss a charity barbeque in Welwyn Village.

The pair had sex on two occasions after she contacted him through one of his police colleagues, a misconduct panel heard. 

She even suspected she was pregnant after sleeping with PS Vaughan and subsequently turned up at his house drunk one evening, forcing him to call the police to get her to leave.

Vaughan, who joined Hertfordshire Police in 2003, also tried to form a relationship with an 18-year-old barmaid who he met in his capacity as a police officer when he was 39.

PS Vaughan exchanged messages with the barmaid to organise her doing work experience at the force’s control room, while also sending ‘sexual, crude and cynical’ messages about her to a police colleague.

One message to his colleague, named as PC A, read: ‘Odds on me sh***ing her (hand up emoji).’

An independent panel found that PS Vaughan’s messages to the teenager were not professional and were instead ‘a calculated ruse to get in contact with Ms C in order to be able to gauge whether or not she was open to meeting for a potentially sexual encounter’.

PS Vaughan was found to have tried to form relationships with a total of four women who he met as a police officer.

Vaughan, who joined Hertfordshire Police (pictured) in 2003, also tried to form a relationship with an 18-year-old barmaid who he met in his capacity as a police officer when he was 39

He was dismissed from the force last week after being found for gross misconduct.

An independent panel, which sat on September 21, found that PS Vaughan had ‘used his position by forming and/or attempting to form relationships with members of the public who he met through his work’.

They added that he ‘failed to treat colleagues and members of the public with courtesy and respect’, ‘behaved in a discriminatory way towards colleagues’ and ‘had regularly spoken about women in a disrespectful way’.

PS Vaughan was found to have made daily comments of a sexual nature about female colleagues passing by the window of his office.

One officer, PC Hayley Twist, said the remarks included ‘she’s nice’ and ‘I know what I would like to do to her’.

The misconduct panel also heard that PS Vaughan had upset a colleague by telling him ‘your missus has big t**s’, but this was not found to be proven.

Other allegations, including that he told the same colleague that his 13-year-old daughter was attractive and asked when she would turn 18, were dismissed.

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