Hundreds of telephone operators at Scotland Yard's call-central control room in Lambeth must log their comfort breaks as a ‘code three' on a database.
Writing a letter to the Metropolitan Police's staff magazine The Job, Paul Dew, Central Communications Command at the Lambeth centre, said: "Everyone I have spoken to finds this deeply offensive and humiliating. I wonder if it is really necessary to record such details. It would be interesting to know what the Met can possibly gain from making notes of such intimate details."
Answering Dew's question, superintendent Russ Hanson-Coles, centre manager at Central Communications Command, said: "The description of the code is ‘personal' and not directly related to visiting the lavatory. No other management information will be stored other than the number of personal breaks - not the detail of their nature."
Metropolitan Police staff personal breaks to be monitored
Metropolitan Police staff have been told they must make a record of their toilet breaks.
