The panel was told that a female police officer was collecting her bag from the training center while other colleagues, including Mr Lungu, were waiting to collect theirs.

Mr Lungu told the woman to hurry up and, when asked what he would do if she didn’t, joked that he would rape her.

She also found that after Mr Lungu and his class watched a video about domestic violence, he made a comment that “the woman in question deserved it”.

The panel said a colleague recalled “coming into class on several occasions and former Officer Lungu talking about sex and talking about sex at lunch.”

His behavior was found to be “intentional, deliberate, targeted and planned” and “amounted to abuse of women and girls”.

Mr Lungu did not attend last week’s hearing, which was held at TVP’s headquarters in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.