A former police officer has been barred from the profession after a disciplinary panel found he threw petrol bombs and caused around £10,000 worth of damage at celebrations marking the end of a training course he led.
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00:00This is certainly a more bizarre example of misconduct by a now former Metropolitan Police officer.
00:08James Dutrois was the lead instructor on a five-week residential public order instructor's course in Kent.
00:17On March 17, 2022, students and instructors celebrated the end of the course by going out for a meal and drinks before returning to the centre.
00:28Many of them went to the Medic's Courtyard, a part of the facility where a quote-unquote town had been reconstructed for training simulations, which at that time contained a stripped-down car.
00:45At around 2.10am on March 18, petrol bombs which had been made for training purposes were thrown inside the area.
00:53The blade caused around £10,000 worth of damage and some 150 fire extinguishers were used to put it out.
01:02Mr Dutrois, who did not attend his tribunal hearing, denied the allegation that he was involved in throwing petrol bombs and denied misconduct.
01:14His response to disciplinary proceedings said, while he accepts that he was at times present during the events subject to these proceedings,
01:26he has no recollection of personally ever throwing a petrol bomb.
01:31The panel found that the allegation that Mr Dutrois had been one of several officers involved in throwing petrol bombs proved on the balance of probabilities.