In recent years, British police officers have received a sneer of sexual intercourse between female police officers and male prisoners. In the past three years, 29 female police officers have been fired. Dr. Sohom Das, a psychiatrist in London who s...
In recent years, British police officers have received a sneer of sexual intercourse between female police officers and male prisoners. In the past three years, 29 female police officers have been fired. Dr. Sohom Das, a psychiatrist in London who served in supervisors, analyzed six psychological causes of this relationship on YouTube channel. Dr.
Das said that the inappropriate relationship between the female policeman and the prisoner was not accidental, but the result of the interaction of multiple factors such as psychology, environment and manipulation. For example, in January this year, former HMP Wandsworth superintendent Linda De Sousa Abreu, a 30-year-old female police officer, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for having sex with prisoners in a cell and shooting sex videos online. Another 29-year-old policewoman Toni Cole was sentenced to one year in prison after sharing more than 4,000 secret messages with a male prisoner and 18 video calls with sexually suggestive.
Das pointed out that female police officers may fall into sexual relations with prisoners for a variety of psychological reasons. Here are the six main factors he proposed:
1. Manipulation and emotional escortDath explains that some prisoners are good at psychological manipulation and will use the vulnerability of the police to achieve their goals. They may win the trust of female police officers through flattery, pretending to be fragile or showing charm, and thus trigger emotional connections. For some policemen, the successful "conquest" of prisoners also brings a sense of satisfaction.
2. Chronic abductionAnother common pattern is "long-term abduction". Das noted that prisoners will start with harmless interactions, such as casual chat or light tutoring, gradually cross the professional line, and ultimately lead the police into close contacts.
He cited this behavior similar to cult recruitment or child sexual assault, and criminals will choose police officers who are emotionally isolated, or who are just emotionally injured and easily affected.
3. Request for recognition and attentionDas emphasized that many female police officers lack emotional support in their private lives, or have low self-esteem, and are prone to seek emotional compensation at work. When prisoners show concern and attention, police officers may fall into inappropriate relationships with desire to be affirmed.
4. The attractiveness of injuring and confusion in the pastSome police officers may have experienced injuring or abuse, which will make them more susceptible to manipulation and even approach people who are dangerous or transboundary behavior. Das mentioned a psychological phenomenon called "Hybristophilia", which is to develop sexual attraction to serious offenders, which is quite common in psychology.
5. Power and sense of controlSome female police officers feel superior to their power to prisoners and mistakenly believe that they can control the situation. But Das warned that in reality, the opposite is true, and prisoners often take advantage of this relationship and further ask police to assist in stealing drugs or other illegal items.
6. The high-pressure working environment is full of violent threats and high-pressure situations. The police officers face dangers and challenges for a long time, and their psychological state is prone to fall into fragility, and then seek comfort emotionally. This kind of environmental pressure may make them more likely to be affected by prisoners, causing blurred boundaries.Doss supplemented, some people believe that the lack of professional training and supervision is also one of the reasons, but he believes that most police officers have clearly known when they are trained that sexual relations with prisoners are serious and illegal behaviors, and the problems are more from psychological weaknesses and prisoner manipulation techniques.
He suggested that the supervisor should invite former police officers who "have been manipulated by themselves" to share stories, and through actual cases, new employees can understand the obscureness and risks of abduction, which is more shocking and educational than a single purely listening to a warning story.