A POLICE woman is facing the sack for stalking – just months after starting in the force.
Rookie PC Emma Bewick, 21, was handed a ten-week suspended sentence by magistrates for repeatedly calling at her victim's home and work.
She now faces being sacked from the South Wales Police force.
A court heard Bewick "pursued a conduct which amounted to stalking" of victim Gavin
Burrows "which you knew or ought to have known amounted to the harassment."
The charge said Bewick, of Llanharan, Pontyclun, "conducted a course of unwanted contact" against Burrows.
Prosecutors said said her behaviour included: "Attending at his home address unannounced, attempting to make unwanted contact with him and attending at places where he frequents."
Bewick admitted stalking without fear, alarm, or distress between October 7 and 25 at Talbot Green, South Wales.
She appeared at Cwmbran Magistrates Court where she was handed a 10 week suspended sentence.
The South Wales Police officer now faces an accelerated misconduct hearing where she is accused of "discreditable conduct".
The charge against her states says she is "alleged to have breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour in relation to Standard 5 Orders and Instructions and Standard 9 Discreditable Conduct, following her arrest and conviction for harassment."
Bewick only started her dream job earlier this year when she joined the South Wales Police force shortly after leaving university.
She studied a policing degree at the University of South Wales – but less than six months after graduating her career could end.
The decision will be taken by bosses at the force's headquarters today.
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