Police caught by their own bodycam playing with sex toys during search

An Essex woman said her marriage has fallen apart after bodycams caught police officers laughing at her sex toys during a raid on her house.

Nichola Corr, 51, says Suffolk Police searched her home as part of a drugs investigation allegedly involving a family member.

During the raid, Nichola said officers were like ‘children in a playground’, throwing a G-string back and forth and pulling her £1,000 of erotic gadgets out of the box while joking they were ‘sticky’.

She complained, and Suffolk Police have now paid Nichola £3,500 in compensation after its professional standards department found the officers’ behaviour to have been ‘unacceptable and unprofessional’.

Nichola’s marriage has fallen apart since the incident, she said, and she blames trauma from the incident for the divorce, saying it ‘diminished’ the couple’s sex life.

The raid, which happened in October 2023, was conducted on the suspicion that a family member was allegedly involved in the supply of controlled drugs.

Nicola was not arrested, and the police investigation led to no charges or prosecutions.

Nichola said: ‘One of the male officers was at the bottom of the bed. He picked up a pair of knickers and he threw them to the other male officer, and he looked down and said: ‘Did you just throw them at me?’

‘After they threw the underwear, they found the box of toys. A young female officer got it down, put it on the bed, started pulling all the things out, saying: ‘Oh, this is sticky! Oh, this is sticky!’

‘There was a cock ring in the drawer. They made a point of going: ‘Oh, look, there’s a cock ring!’

‘They were taking the absolute piss! It was like they were children in a playground, the way they were acting. It was disgusting,’ she said.

Suffolk Police force denied officers ever touched the sex toys, with a spokesperson saying: ‘A box containing sex toys was found, which was subject to comment and laughter from the officers, but at no point do they touch or play with the items.

‘The underwear appeared to be moved in jest, without any thought given for the upset this could cause to the owner.’

Nichola said that while she didn’t see the incident during the raid, she found out about the full extent of the officers’ actions after requesting bodycam footage.

‘When I went up to check the house after they had left, there was a pair of my underwear from a sexy set – just a G-string – laid out on my pillow,’ she said.

‘I know there’s no way if you throw a G-string, it’s going to land perfectly on a pillow. It’s like a sick person robbing you and giving a mark to say they were there. So I made a complaint.’

According to Nichola, the footage also shows an older officer telling their colleagues to turn off the bodycam recording.

She said she no longer trusts the police, who are using their ‘power over people’.

Suffolk Police said the allegations were investigated by the joint Norfolk & Suffolk Professional Standards Department.

A force spokesperson said: ‘They determined the officers’ behaviour was deemed to be unacceptable and unprofessional, but was considered to be more due to immaturity than spite.”

‘It was noted that all the officers involved were very young in terms of service and still undergoing training. One of the officers left the organisation prior to the complaint being received.

‘The two officers who remained in service were required to undertake ‘Reflective Practice’. As a part of this process, the two officers who remain in service offered an apology to the complainant, and the Detective Inspector who investigated the allegations also offered an apology for their behaviour, both verbally and in writing.’

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