An unfair dismissal claim filed by a police officer who kept asking her colleagues for sex has been turned down by the Industrial Relations Commission.  Jessica Parfrey was fired in 2007 just five months into her probation. Her colleagues at Waratah local area command which is just outside Newcastle claim that as well as constantly making lascivious demands Ms. Parfrey also told one officer that she was keen to witness a fatal traffic accident so that she could claim compensation for hurt-on-duty.

Just days into her probation it is claimed that Ms. Palfrey asked her supervisor if they could start an affair. He says he turned her down and that about a month later she asked him for sex. He again turned her down and was told by Ms. Parfrey that because she was a nineteen-year-old woman there must be something wrong with him. She also offered an officer oral sex in the toilet of a pub, propositioned another by telling him she knew he wanted her and even offered to help an officer study by stripping off a piece of clothing for every question he answered correctly. All say that they politely declined.

Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy explained to Ms. Parfrey in a letter that her dismissal was due to her behaviour not really being that which was expected of an officer. In her defence Ms. Parfrey claimed that every time she had asked for sexual relations she had in fact been joking. The Industrial Relations Commission said that they did not see it that way and have refused to let her return to work.