Detective Constable Derrick Quarm has lost his 12th employment tribunal in ten years

A police officer has been slammed by a judge after he lost his 12th employment tribunal in just ten years.

Detective Constable Derrick Quarm, 44, was told that his latest claim of being victimised because of his race was 'totally without merit'.

Former paratrooper Mr Quarm made headlines in 2015 when he claimed a detective had made an 'overtly racist' comment in the aftermath of the London Riots in 2011 when he said that Lambeth, South London was like 'the planet of the apes'.

This time around, he demanded £25,000 in 'compensation for injury to feelings' after claiming that colleagues had buried a report he compiled on police corruption.

According to the Sun, The Met denied the allegations and called them 'wild, unfounded and entirely unsupported'.

Judge Julie Jones rejected the claim at a preliminary hearing in East London and ruled Quarm produced no supporting evidence.

Quarm joined the Metropolitan Police in 1997 and made his first claim against the force in 2008 after being overlooked for promotion eight times.

His 11th tribunal last September heard his earlier claims had focused on racial discrimination and the later ones on victimisation.

The Met declined to comment.

In an earlier hearing, which he also lost, DC Quarm said he had unearthed a ‘white collar criminal network’ in Lambeth but was ‘portrayed as a pathological liar’ after reporting his findings, and claimed his previous managers briefed his new bosses in a different borough that he ‘played the race card’.