A Metropolitan Police officer, Detective Constable Jose Poonsawat has admitted sexually touching a woman without her consent in court and will be sentenced next month.
The Met Police said on Saturday that thorough investigation had led the officer admitting sexual assault during an off duty incident in December 2022.
Poonsawat attached to the Central South Command Unit, appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 12 July charged with sexual assault.
He pleaded guilty and was released on court bail to appear for sentencing on Friday, 23 August.
According to the police, he was accused of sexually touching a woman without her consent during an off duty incident on 16 December 2022, and was investigated by the officers from Bromley, and the Met’s Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences team sitting within the Directorate of Professional Standards.
Commander Seb Adjei-Addoh, who led policing in Lambeth and Southwark, said his thoughts were with the victim who had displayed courage in reporting this sexual assault.
He said officers were quite rightly held to account for wrongdoing by the courts, saying that in the case DC Poonsawat, he had pleaded guilty and now awaited sentencing.
The police said now that criminal proceedings had concluded, the misconduct process would commence.
