A POLICE officer claimed to have stirred a female colleague's cup of tea with his genitals, a misconduct hearing was told.

The woman said PC Steven Green made sexual comments to her and told her he had stirred her tea with his private parts.

A disciplinary panel heard how he watched her changing in the female locker room and gave her a shoulder massage without permission.

One witness said PC Green told the police community support office (PCSO) to "bend over a table".

The witness claims he said: “I’m a PC, you’re a PCSO, if I say bend over a table, you just do it.”

On another occasion, PC Green downloaded a picture of the junior officer from her Instagram and had it printed on a cup with the caption: "Brilliant but not perfect".

The woman, identified only as PCSO A, returned it with a note saying "thank you for the gift but no thank you".

PCSO A said: “I would have liked to use the mug as a gateway to tell him to back off but I wasn’t given that chance.

“I feel it could have been resolved.”

The incidents are said to have happened between May and July 2020 and were raised to a supervising officer.

When asked to clarify the incident in the locker room, another witness, PCSO B said “The door wasn’t knocked, it was forcefully opened.

“I heard PC Green say ‘are you decent’.

“PCSO A jumped, it made me jump.

“I looked towards the door and saw it closing.”

PC Green denies most charges but admits that he pushed the door to the locker room to "creep it open".

He says he was trying to make friends with PCSO A as he was not friendly with his own team who often made fun of him.

PC Green said “I was having a bit of a laugh.

“It was never my intention to make her feel bad.

“I didn’t want to do anything malicious or make her feel uncomfortable.

“I misjudged the friendship.”

PC Green denies breaching the standards of professional behaviour and that his actions amount to gross misconduct.

The hearing at Sussex Police headquarters in Lewes continues.