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A Scotland Yard officer took to Twitter today to tell how he arrested a woman at Notting Hill Carnival after she slapped him on the backside.

Inspector Owen Pyle of Southwark police told of his ordeal online following the incident, which happened at Notting Hill Carnival on Monday.

He said: “While dealing with an incident at Carnival yesterday a woman thought it'd be funny to slap my bum.

“She soon regretted it when I arrested her.

“I don't come to work to be sexually assaulted while doing my job. That kind of behaviour is unacceptable.”

When asked by someone if the woman was apologetic afterwards, he said: “Not initially. Only when she was arrested and escorted away from Carnival.”

Following his post Inspector Pyle received a number of supportive messages.

One person said: “I really don't understand how people can think that behaving like that towards a police officer or anyone else for that matter would be acceptable.”

Another wrote: “Well done hope she is shown the full force of the law.”

A fellow Met officer, Jon Killen an emergency response team police constable, responded on Twitter.

He said: “This is just appalling, sorry Guv. I'm sure she thought that the Carnival atmosphere meant she could get away with it, and I'm glad you showed her how wrong she was!”

Inspector Pyle added after his initial post that “we need to be robust” when dealing with people who commit these sort of offences.

Scotland Yard said in a statement: "At 21:45hrs on Monday, 27 August a 26-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly in Westbourne Park Road, W2.

"She was taken to a central London police station, where she was issued a dispersal order requiring her to leave the Carnival footprint."