An ex-police sergeant and a serving constable have been found to have committed gross misconduct by having sex in their busy police station. Adam Reed, 40, and Jemma Dicks, 28, were said to have brought the reputation of the police service into disrepute after PC Dicks performed oral sex on her superior on at least three occasions at Cardiff Central police station. On Wednesday, a misconduct panel told Dicks that her breaches of standards of professional behaviour left her at risk of being sacked from South Wales police, with Reed already having quit the force. Dicks will now await a decision on sanctions, which will be delivered on Thursday, with a decision also due on whether Reed will be placed on the policing barred list. The panel’s chairwoman, Emma Boothroyd, said Reed, a married father-of-two, had “manipulated” the younger officer during their 10-month affair, with Dicks looking up to him after her police officer father died. But she said Dicks’ decision to perform the sex acts on Reed on at least three occasions between November 2017 and August 2018 – including once while she was on duty – was a “serious breach of professional behaviour” and amounted to gross misconduct. Boothroyd also said that although there “clearly were difficulties in the relationship”, the panel “was not satisfied the sexual conduct in the police station was as a result of PC Dicks being pressurised or controlled”. Boothroyd said: “The public would expect a police officer on duty to be focused on her duties and not engaging in sexual conduct while at the police station.” She added: “Using a police station to engage in sexual liaisons, even while off duty, undermines public trust in the police.” Boothroyd said each of the sexual encounters at the Cardiff police station had been “orchestrated” by Reed “primarily for his own sexual gratification”, with each occasion starting with him becoming jealous of Dicks’ contact with male colleagues or becoming irritated at her working late. Dicks, who has been supported by the domestic violence charity Welsh Women’s Aid, told the hearing that she willingly performed the acts to please Reed and to avoid upsetting him, believing they were in a relationship and after he had made threats to take his own life. One of the encounters was filmed on Reed’s mobile phone, with Dicks being described as “smiling and playing to the camera”, though she denied knowing she was being recorded. The hearing was told images on Reed’s phone showed he had individual sexual encounters with another police colleague as well as three other women at the same time he was meeting with Dicks, all while he remained in a relationship with his wife. Dicks said Reed had become abusive and controlling during their affair, saying he accused her of sleeping with other men and regularly went through her phone messages and refused her access to her friends and to events. Boothroyd told the hearing that she was satisfied there had been an “imbalance” in the pair’s relationship, with text messages between them showing Dicks was “in love with Mr Reed and looked up to him”. “The panel found it understandable she was comforted and flattered by the attention from Mr Reed. She wanted to please him and was on occasions angry he would not leave his wife.” The case presenter, Barney Branston, submitted to the panel that Dicks should be dismissed without notice, saying even a single episode of having sex whilst at a police station would normally justify being sacked. He said: “Her behaviour shows a blatant disregard for her status as a police officer. It is frankly an insult to the force, to her colleagues, and most importantly to the public she’s supposed to serve. “Such behaviour and disdainful attitude is simply incompatible with her continued service.” The hearing was told Dicks was currently working in her force’s incident resolution team, where officers deal with matters over the phone that do not require a police call-out. Lucy Crowther, representing Dicks, said the woman had been “ridiculed and laughed at” for her actions after achieving her “dream” of joining the police force, and called for her to be able to keep her job. She said: “It would have been a very easy choice to disengage, turn her back and resign a long time ago to avoid the inevitable embarrassment that follows this hearing. “But she has not done so because she wants to be part of the organisation. That’s reflected by her attitude, which has been demonstrated at the outset.” She added: “If there was ever a case where the panel could be assured of no repeated incidents, it is this.” Three separate allegations facing Reed, who left the force in the wake of the allegations in January 2019, were also found proven and that they amounted to gross misconduct. Reed had admitted to only one of the encounters with Dicks at the police station, while he accepted another allegation of covertly taking photographs of the feet of another female colleague. The hearing was told the harm caused to the female officer after she found out her feet had been photographed “had been significant”. Reed also admitted an allegation of having sex with an unnamed female PCSO, who has since become a police officer, at the same station, but denied it was while he was on duty. The hearing continues.