PC Shaun Jenkins has been reinstated after having sex while he was on duty

An armed policeman who had sex with another man’s wife while on duty kept his job because he was in full control of his firearm, even though it was “around his ankles”.

PC Shaun Jenkins’s loaded gun was in a holster attached to his belt when he lowered his trousers to have sex with the woman.

The Gwent Police officer also left an armed response vehicle waiting for him outside the house in Caerphilly where the sexual encounter took place — effectively taking a vital emergency vehicle out of action for half an hour.

An official report yesterday revealed a series of secret disciplinary hearings at which PC Jenkins was given a written warning, dismissed and reinstated by an appeal panel which said he had