{"id":39077,"date":"2023-10-07T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/?p=39077"},"modified":"2023-10-07T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:29:53","slug":"female-cop-told-just-because-you-have-ts-doesnt-mean-you-cant-do-press-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/world-news\/female-cop-told-just-because-you-have-ts-doesnt-mean-you-cant-do-press-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Female cop told ‘just because you have t**s doesn’t mean you can’t do press ups’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A female police officer has won a case after accusing her firearms department of sex discrimination and harassment after she was forced to strip down to her underwear during a training course.<\/p>\n

Tribunals heard that Detective Inspector Rebecca Kalam was discriminated against during her training and told inappropriate comments.<\/p>\n

Among these, she was told \u2018just because you have t**s does not mean you cannot do a press up\u2019 during her training as well as being forced to pose for photos while five months pregnant.<\/p>\n

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Kalam was also understood to be made the \u2018poster girl\u2019 for the firearms unit in the West Midlands Police and was told if she refused, she would not pass the training course.<\/p>\n

Kalam was one of only seven women in a unit with 250 men, which led to her being discriminated against, according to the case.<\/p>\n

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She complained of a \u2018toxic and discriminatory\u2019 environment in which she felt uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

Other allegations showed that derogatory comments were made towards people they were trying to protect, with Kalam claiming last month that protection officers for Malala Yousafzai was referred to as \u2018Tikka Masala\u2019.<\/p>\n

The men were also said to make inappropriate sexual comments and draw male genitalia on notice boards.<\/p>\n

West Midlands have come forward and admitted discrimination and sexual harassment after several allegations made by Kalam.<\/p>\n