A DRUNK police officer out celebrating the completion of a three-day Taser course has been sacked for gross misconduct after mimicking wielding the device and assaulting a man.

PC Lee Ribera of Norfolk Constabulary had “gone out that night … elated at passing his Taser course,” a report about a disciplinary hearing said.

The officer, who joined the force in 2022, was said to have been “heavily intoxicated” after attending a Wetherspoons pub in Norwich in September last year.

PC Ribera was asked to leave a cinema in a shopping centre before shouting “words along the lines of ‘is there a police officer with a Taser’ with his hands outstretched in front of him, as though holding something,” the report said.

“The officer was passed by a member of the public and the officer shouted ‘police’ and ‘Taser’,” the report continued.

It was said that when a second man passed the officer just after 10pm, PC Ribera attempted to grab the man and pushed him backwards with both hands.

PC Ribera was said to have shouted about “police” and “Tasers” and the man, who asked the officer to leave him alone and “assumed a non-combative position.”

“The officer further attempted to push the male backwards and a physical altercation followed,” the report said.

“The man punched the officer numerous times at different points of the physical altercation.

“The altercation ended when [the man] punched the officer who then fell to the floor, believed to be unconscious.”

PC Ribera, who was dismissed without notice for gross misconduct, told of his “deep regret and embarrassment” and expressed “his deepest apologies to all concerned.”