PC Adam Zaman Metropolitan Police
PC Adam Zaman Metropolitan Police

A Metropolitan Police officer, PC Adam Zaman, smashed holes in his bathroom door in a drunken rage while his wife and five month old baby hid inside the room from him. PC Adam Zaman has been struck off and placed on the College of Policing’s barred list.

PC Adam Zaman returned home drunk on the night of June 3 and engaged in a “furious argument” with his wife, a police misconduct hearing found. She then locked herself in the bathroom with their five month old baby while he “violently smashed the door to the bathroom with a view of breaking in”.

The body-worn cameras of attending officers, called to the scene by PC Adam Zaman’s fearful wife, captured the now ex-officer admitting he caused the damage. Despite claiming this was only a “lovers tiff”, he has been struck off for “gross misconduct” and placed on the College of Policing’s barred list.

PC Adam Zaman, who did not attend the hearing and denies causing the damage, had argued that he was so drunk on the night that there had been a “misunderstanding” with attending officers. He also claimed that his wife does not know English well enough to have accurately answered the attending officer’s questions.

However, body-worn video footage from the incident showed this to be untrue and PC Adam Zaman to be “sober enough to fully understand what was happening and converse with officers”, the panel found.

“PC Adam Zaman intentionally used violence resulting in damage to his bathroom door. This was done in order to gain access to his wife and child who were locked inside. The reason for them locking themselves in the bathroom was due to extreme fear caused by his behaviour,” the report reads.

“It is unacceptable for police officers who are responsible for enforcing the law to break the law by using extreme violence to cause damage, fear and distress.”


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