Detective Was Found Drunk at Fulham Police Base
Nick Gray dismissed after testing three times over limit
Jubilee House on Putney Bridge Road
September 15, 2025
A Metropolitan Police detective has been dismissed without notice after colleagues detected he was under the influence of alcohol while on duty at a police station in Fulham.
Detective Constable Nick Gray was working at Jubilee House, Putney Bridge Road, on 19 February this year when fellow officers became concerned that he smelt of alcohol. The building, which serves as a base for local policing teams and specialist units, is a central hub for police work in south-west London.
Gray was taken from the station to Kingston Police Station, where he provided two breath samples registering 40 and 41 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. Under Metropolitan Police policy, any reading above 13 micrograms while on duty renders an officer unfit for service.
An accelerated misconduct hearing, held in public on 24 July, concluded that Gray’s actions constituted gross misconduct. The panel found breaches of the Standards of Professional Behaviour relating to Discreditable Conduct and Fitness for Duty.
Assistant Commissioner Rachel Williams, who chaired the hearing, said Gray had shown “high culpability” by reporting for duty after drinking, and his behaviour posed a “great harm to public trust and confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service.”
“Members of the public would not expect a serving police officer to undertake their duties whilst unfit through alcohol,” Williams said. “Doing so undermines confidence in the officer concerned, and in the reputation of the Metropolitan Police Service itself.”
The hearing found no mitigating circumstances and concluded that dismissal without notice was the only proportionate sanction. Gray will also be added to the College of Policing’s barred list, preventing him from working for any police force in future.
Gray had served at Jubilee House prior to his dismissal, a site that houses both uniformed and detective officers working across the wider south-west London area.
Assistant Commissioner Williams concluded: “It is entirely unacceptable for police officers to present themselves as ready for duty whilst unfit to do so through alcohol.”
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