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Drunk police officer sacked after 'taser' confrontation

Aimee Dexter
BBC News, Norfolk
David Freezer/BBC Exterior view of one of the entrances to the Castle Quarter shopping centre, with a cafe outside, and Norwich Castle visible on top of the shopping centre.David Freezer/BBC
The police constable had twice gone up the turned-off escalator to the Vue cinema and been asked to leave by staff

A drunk police officer who mimicked wielding a taser and was knocked out after a confrontation with a er-by in a shopping centre has been sacked for gross misconduct.

PC Lee Ribera, of Norfolk Police, had "gone out that night as he was elated at ing his taser course", a force disciplinary hearing was told.

The officer was said to have been "heavily intoxicated" after going to a pub in Norwich city centre on 26 September.

Later that evening, the report stated the officer "attempted to push" a man backwards and was later punched to the floor and was "believed to be unconscious".

The report said PC Ribera, who ed the force in 2022, had been in The Bell pub and then entered the Castle Quarter Shopping Centre, where he got into the Vue cinema by going up the escalator, which was switched off because the cinema was closed.

This happened twice and on both occasions he was asked to leave by cinema staff, the report said.

Elsewhere in the shopping centre, he then "shouted words along the lines of 'is there a police officer with a Taser":[]}