Pc Emilio Sabatino allegedly brandished his warrant card and mocked bouncer Gurmeet Singh

A police officer called a bouncer a 'P***' after he urinated on a friend at a cocktail bar, a hearing was told.

Pc Emilio Sabatino allegedly brandished his warrant card and mocked bouncer Gurmeet Singh when he discovered the officer and another man urinating at each other at Dirty Martini, in Mayfair, London.

Mr Singh claimed the officer was aggressive towards him and made fun of his SIA (Security Industry Authority) pass, asking 'why are you wearing that?'.

The doorman told a Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing he found Sabatino in the toilet standing three feet away from his friend and aiming urine at each other on August 29, 2015.

Mr Singh said door staff checked the toilets every 20 minutes to check there was 'no alcohol or broken glass on the floor.'

He said: 'I saw two men urinating in the toilet facing each other. They were doing it in mid-air towards each other.

'I asked them to stop doing that and said I had to call the manager. He said he was a police officer and showed me his badge.

'He said "Can I vouch for my friend?", then he showed his ID card to me.

'I said "I don't know what you are showing me your badge for". He didn't say anything so I called my manager.

'He was asked to come out of the premises and make his way upstairs. As we came outside, he asked if he could come back inside. Then he questioned why I had my SIA badge on.

'He said 'I can show my [police] badge to whoever I want to. I said 'I haven't committed a crime.'

Mr Singh continued: 'He was a little bit aggressive because he wanted to get back downstairs.

'He stuck his middle finger up and said 'P***' and I said I would make a complaint.

Mr Singh said one of Pc Sabatino's friends apologised to him, before shouting at the policeman 'Why did you say that?'

'I was quite shocked. You wouldn't expect that from anyone. I think it's bullying.

'I was hoping that someone should tell him that. It was wrong.

'It's the first time I have come across someone flashing a badge at me or being racist to me.'

Robert Morris, representing Pc Sabatino, asked Mr Singh if he made any notes of the incident before writing his statement on October, 29 2015. Mr Singh replied he had not.

Mr Morris suggested Mr Singh had been concerned about Sabatino and his group of friends throughout the night, but Mr Singh replied: 'No, they were a nice group.'

Mr Morris asked if Sabatino and his friend ended up 'covered in urine'. Mr Singh replied: 'No, I don't think so. I know it was falling on the floor..'

Pc Emilio Sabatino was at Dirty Martini, in Mayfair, London when the alleged incident occured

Mr Morris suggested Mr Singh had originally told his manager that the two men were urinating 'in the same urinal' and that he had 'exaggerated that to make it sound worse'. Mr Singh denied the claims.

Pc Sabatino later denied calling the bouncer a 'P***' and described it as a disgusting term.

He denied urinating on the toilet floor but said he and his friend Tim Blunn - the fiancee of his girlfriend's sister - had joked about 'crossing streams' as they relieved themselves.

Pc Sabatino also denied showing his warrant card to gain an advantage and said he was simply trying to defuse the situation.

He arrived at the Dirty Martini around 8pm and had been drinking for five hours at the time of the incident, although he said he was only 'seven' out of ten drunk.

Describing the incident in the toilet of the Dirty Martini cocktail bar he said: 'I was at the urinal. Tim has then come in behind me. I don't know for what reason, but he thought it would be funny to start urinating in my urinal.

'He did that for a few seconds, then went back to his urinal.'

'As Tim finished, he turns towards Mr Singh. Mr Singh then got quite close to him and said 'you can't be doing that. Why are you urinating on the floor?'

'Because of his big stature in quite a small confined space, it did seem a bit intimidating.

'As he was about to explain what was going on, he said 'I'm calling the manager and you are all going out.'

He added: 'I heard Mr Singh say that [we were urinating at each other] and it is just ridiculous. I don't know why we would urinate on each other and then carry on with our night.'

Sabatino denied using any racist language towards Mr Singh as he has an Italian father and colleagues from 'all different faiths' but admitted to swearing at him by lifting his middle finger and saying 'f*** ***'.