Officers unlawfully arrested the woman after they were called by a bailiff.
Sharon has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and said she now feels scared when she sees a police carA woman has been paid £40,000 compensation by a police force after two officers trespassed in her home and unlawfully arrested her.
"Sometimes I get paranoid when I see police coming in my direction and I think 'What have I done wrong?'"She is calling for all police officers to switch on their own body-worn cameras when they enter people's homes.Sgt Jonathan Flint, shown here in the bailiff's footage, offered to assist in seizing goods from the house
Sgt Flint replies: "Yeah we are, so that's that. Well, that's what's happening, that's what's happening." In her witness statement, Sharon said Sgt Flint accused her of "imprisoning" the officers, and repeatedly asked for her key, even though she had unlocked the door by this point."From the looks on their faces and their body language, I just believed I was going to be attacked."
She said her keys had been forcibly taken from her and she had been handcuffed as she lay on her front, half on the floor and half on a sofa. The bailiff enters Sharon's house and looks round but does not take anything, as he does not find anything of value.Image caption,Sharon's complaint was investigated by Nottinghamshire Police's professional standards department, which concluded both officers had a case to answer for misconduct.
However, the sanction was changed to a final written warning after Sgt Flint appealed twice to the Police Appeals Tribunal. Chief Constable Craig Guildford said in a statement to the BBC: "We will always take these matters extremely seriously and I was very disappointed with the outcome of the appeal."
Sgt Flint "grappled" with Sharon and handcuffed her, with the assistance of PC Elliott. They used unlawful force to do this and unlawfully detained for her 10-15 minutes.The force admitted that both officers "committed batteries", and also that Sgt Flint "behaved in a high-handed and oppressive manner".
"Remarkably, neither police officer either had or deployed their body-worn camera, and it was only because the bailiff had a body-worn camera that the situation was captured on film," he said.
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