Sunday Mail (UK)

More sex in your 60s, says star Don

- Former cop Wilson

Miami Vice star and ladies’ man Don Johnson reckons older people are having more sex than ever.

The four times-wed actor, 68, said: “It used to be you got into your 60s and then it was just over.

“Now as people get older they start to realise, ‘I’m here in this life’.

“I don’t think anyone’s going to look back and say, ‘I made too much love.’”

Johnson, who played Crockett in the hit TV cop series, said the trend is ref lected in his new romantic comedy movie Book Club, in which he stars alongside Jane Fonda.

It’s the story of four friends whose lives change after reading erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.

Constable Calum Steele branded former assistant chief constable Angela Wilson “one of the most incompeten­t imbeciles ever to have held rank in the police service”, “useless” and a “buffoon”.

The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) general secretary also alleged that a corruption inquiry “extended” to her – prompting Wilson to complain to Police Scotland.

Upholding the complaint, Chief Inspector Jacqui Campbell, of the Profession­al Standards Department (PSD), ruled the comments were “inappropri­ate and offensive” and that Wilson was “never investigat­ed for corruption”.

Steele claimed to be off duty when he launched the Twitter tirade on May 3 but the PSD probe discovered that he was working.

Campbel l said: “The record revealed Constable Steele’s duty for that date was 0900 to 1700 hours, therefore, at the time the tweets were posted he was on duty.”

Campbell has issued Wilson a “sincere apology for the undoubted upset Constable Steele’s actions have caused”.

But Steele – who heads the federation representi­ng 98 per cent of Police Scotland officers – “makes no apology” and refuses to delete the messages.

Campbell said: “We have asked Constable Steele to remove the relevant tweets from his Twitter account. Unfortunat­ely, it is his own personal Twitter account and, as such, we are unable to order him to remove or delete them.”

Despite Steele’s messages being from a personal account, Campbell found “they are e directly related to his role as a police officer r and particular­ly his role as general secretary” ” of the SPF.

The federation boss attacked Wilson n after she said interim Chief Constable Iain n Livingston­e should not get the job permanentl­y y due to a previous sexual attack allegation.

Livingston­e was cleared of assaulting a female junior officer at a police college in 2000 0 but was demoted from superinten­dent to o constable, which was later reversed on appeal. l.

Steele accused Wilson of having an “axe e to grind” along with ex- chief constable Phil il Gormley and his wife Claire. Wilson told the e PSD that when she had previous dealings with h Steele, he had been disrespect­ful and misogynist­ic. The former senior officer, now chair of the Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre in Dundee, declined to comment.

But a source said: “Calling someone nasty names on Twitter is bad enough but making a false allegation of corruption is outrageous. “Any police officer, especially a ful l- t ime federat ion official, ought to know better. It was vital ly important for Angela that he was held to account and that his claims were proven to be completely false.”

Steele, who spoke to PSD officers through a lawyer, now faces a further hearing which may resu l t in disciplina­ry action. His lawyer quoted a dictionary definition of “imbeciles” as meaning “a fool” and that it was “a fair and honest comment that represents Constable Steele’s honestly-held belief ”.

Scottish Conservati­ve justice spokesman Liam Kerr said: “Calum Steele should really back down, apologise and delete the offending tweets. Otherwise this row will rumble on.”

Chief Superinten­dent Mark Hargreaves, head of the Profession­al Standards Department, said: “The investigat­ion into this complaint has concluded and as this is an internal matter it would be inappropri­ate to comment further.”

Steele and his lawyers yesterday refused to comment.

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OUTSPOKEN COMPLAINT Steele’s tweets about Wilson REVEALED Our story on police Twitter row TWEETS Steele faces disciplina­ry action over his online comments
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