Romanian-born policewoman loses discrimination claim

An ‘aggressive and rude’ Romanian-born policewoman has lost her claim for racial discrimination after she was disciplined over her behaviour.

An employment tribunal heard that PC Simina Muntean was placed on a ‘development plan’ by a senior officers after a string of complaints.

Called to a dispute between a mother and her son, she is said to have called the boy a ‘d***head’.

 On another occasion, she allegedly said she needed to get home for childcare reasons in front of a rape victim. 

And when she stopped at a car crash in which a passenger had been injured, PC Muntean ‘failed to get out of her vehicle’ and did not seize a number plate left at the scene, the tribunal heard.

She twice failed a driving skills assessment but claimed the instructors were racist.

Called to a dispute between a mother and her son, Ms Muntean is said to have called the boy a ‘d***head’

Fellow officers had described her as rude, abrupt and opinionated – and when she was finally brought in for a disciplinary hearing, she began screaming and angrily waving her hands in an ‘aggressive outburst of emotion’.

PC Muntean, a response officer in Wolverhampton who joined West Midlands Police in 2009, claimed there had been a conspiracy against her and that her ‘confrontational and challenging personality’ was ‘inextricably interlinked to her race’ that had ‘marked her out as a troublemaker’.

The tribunal rejected her race discrimination claim. She is still working for the force.