A police officer has resigned after it came to light that she had faked having leukemia to get time off from her job.
Olivia Lucas from the UK is a former police constable who quit law enforcement ahead of her disciplinary hearing that would see her sacked from the job for lying about her sickness.
According to the reports, Lucas, who worked for the Hampshire Constabulary, broke the code of conduct as she engaged in a “disturbing level of meanness and malice” by lying to her colleagues about having leukemia between late-2018 and mid-2019.
As it was found out, the former police constable deceived her superiors and coworkers by claiming she was sick and undergoing treatment at a hospital while they organized events to raise money for her treatment.
She was also found guilty of fabricating evidence and sharing fake messages from the Professional Standards Department on top of implicating one of her colleagues.
“The level of meanness and malice was disturbing,” Jane Jones, the chairwoman of the panel, said of Lucas as she accused her of drawing people “into her web of lies.”
As the chairwoman added, the constable was “meddling and toying with personal relationships as well as taking advantage of the decency and compassion of her colleagues” as she displayed a “total lack of empathy.”
“This officer went to extraordinary lengths to create a web of deceit and exploited the trust and kindness of her supervisors and colleagues, who even carried out fundraising events to raise money for her, given she purported to be suffering from a serious illness,” Assistant Chief Constable Ben Snuggs explained.
“She also undertook an orchestrated, calculated and vindictive campaign to destroy the relationships and reputations of innocent colleagues due to her selfish fixated behavior.
“I would echo the panel’s comments that one of most disturbing aspects of this case is the complete lack of respect she showed to the very real lived experiences of cancer patients and survivors for whom this type of scenario is a somber reality.”
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Replaced!