The Metropolitan Police has been told to reinstate a senior officer it sacked for possessing a child abuse video which had been sent to her on WhatsApp.
The independent panel concluded "a flawed structure" had led the force to sack Ms Williams.
It determined that her dismissal should be replaced with a final written warning, clearing her to return to work.The Met Police then challenged this decision at the High Court in London, arguing Ms Williams' dismissal was the "only possible outcome".
Mrs Justice Heather Williams said: "The PAT was entitled to regard this as an exceptional case in which dismissal for the officer's gross misconduct was not a necessary and proportionate sanction. "The PAT reached the conclusion that it did because of the unique circumstances of the conviction, the officer's stellar career, the substantial impact she had had on enhancing the reputation of the MPS as a whole and its assessment that her dismissal would reduce confidence in the police in some of the communities in which the MPS had struggled to gain trust.
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