A Wiltshire police officer who ‘touched his colleague’s penis and showed sex tapes while on a work night out’ would have been dismissed had he not resigned.
A gross misconduct hearing, relating to two separate incidents involving then-serving PC Tomas Murphy, was held on 15 December 2025 at Police HQ in Devizes
The first allegation concerned behaviour during a work Christmas night out in Bath on or around 9 December 2024.
The panel found that former PC Murphy, who worked in Swindon, showed colleagues videos on his mobile phone featuring him engaging in sexual activity with several women.
The videos were shown without invitation or request from the officers present and in a public venue.
The panel ruled that this conduct amounted to discreditable behaviour and gross misconduct, finding it capable of undermining public confidence in policing.
A further allegation related to an incident on or around 30 December 2024 while former PC Murphy was on duty.
The panel found that he deliberately made physical contact with the groin of a colleague, referred to as PC A, on more than one occasion.
Former PC Murphy brushed his head against PC A’s crotch area twice after bending down to pick up his security pass – making contact with his penis through his clothes.
The behaviour took place inside a secure area at Swindon Town Centre Police Point and was not consensual.
The panel ruled that this conduct breached standards of authority, respect and courtesy and amounted to gross misconduct.
Former PC Murphy resigned from Wiltshire Police with immediate effect on 2 December 2025, shortly before the hearing took place.
He did not attend the proceedings but was represented by DS Louise Kuklinski of the police federation and admitted the majority of the allegations at the level of gross misconduct.
One element of the case, relating to whether the women featured in his intimate videos had consented to them being shown to others, was not proven.
The panel concluded there was insufficient evidence to establish that consent had not been obtained.
DS Kuklinski said that the former officer provided details of the women in his videos, but investigators had not contacted them to find out if they consented.
The remaining allegations were upheld and judged to be at the upper end of seriousness.
The panel found the behaviour was deliberate, repeated and amounted to sexual impropriety, causing potential psychological harm to colleagues and reputational damage to policing.
The panel also acknowledged that former PC Murphy had made extensive admissions, showed remorse, and had apologised through his representative at the hearing.
It ruled that former PC Murphy would have been dismissed without notice had he not already resigned.
