A police constable has been given a final written warning after she admitted carrying out sex acts on a senior officer at their police station. Jemma Dicks, 28, was said to have brought the reputation of the police service into disrepute after she performed oral sex on ex-sergeant Adam Reed, 40, on at least three occasions at Cardiff Central police station. On Thursday, a misconduct hearing was told that although her actions had damaged the reputation of the police service, she had not sought to cover up the episodes and had expressed “genuine remorse”. It also heard that “predatory” Reed would have been dismissed without notice from South Wales police for “orchestrating” the encounters if he had not already quit after allegations were made against him. As a result of the decision his name will be placed on the policing barred list. The panel chairwoman, Emma Boothroyd, said: “The encounters were planned by former police sergeant Reed, but nevertheless PC Dicks was aware of the purpose of meeting him.” Boothroyd said that the panel did not accept they were spur-of-the-moment encounters, and said her conduct “had the effect of diverting her attention from her duties and the use of the police station for these purposes was disrespectful to colleagues and members of the public. “She prioritised her sexual encounter over her responsibilities as a police officer.” Boothroyd said Dicks did not deliberately set out to have sex at work and while on duty, and was experiencing “very difficult family circumstances” at the time following the death of her police officer father. The panel head also referred to testimonials from Dicks’ colleagues that she was a “hard-working, diligent officer”, and that it was unlikely she would repeat her conduct. Dicks broke into tears after receiving the decision, having heard that a finding that her actions amounted to gross misconduct would leave the panel with the power to dismiss her without notice. She was told the final written warning would last for 18 months, and any future misconduct within that time could lead to her dismissal. Dicks is working in her force’s incident resolution team, where officers deal with matters over the phone which do not require a police callout. The hearing was previously told that married father-of-two Reed had “manipulated” the female officer during their 10-month affair, with the younger woman looking up to him as a replacement for her father. The session was told that Dicks’ decision to perform sex acts on Reed 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 said each of the sexual encounters at the station had been “orchestrated” by Reed “primarily for his own sexual gratification”. Dicks, who has been supported by 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 kill himself. Three separate allegations facing Reed, who left the force in January 2019, were also found proven, amounting to gross misconduct. He had admitted only one encounter with Dicks at the police station, while he accepted another allegation of covertly taking photographs of the feet of another female colleague because he had a “foot fetish”. Reed also admitted having sex with an unnamed female community support officer, who has since become a police officer, at the same station, but denied it was while he was on duty.