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Scottish Sun
02-06-2025
- Scottish Sun
Shock moment Brit police officer exposes himself & wees on Benidorm bar on boozy holiday before being suspended by force
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A DRUNK cop has been suspended after he was filmed dropping his shorts and weeing from a podium in a packed Benidorm bar. PC Alex Bates, 30, was on a weekend away with pals in the Spanish party resort when he got onto the platform and suddenly exposed himself. 5 PC Alex Bates, 30, was filmed exposing himself and urinating in Benidorm 5 He relieved himself on a podium in the middle of packed bar Credit: The Sun 5 The policeman is now facing disciplinary action back home Credit: Facebook Footage shows revellers cheering and laughing as he then begins urinating onto the infamous Calla Gerona party strip. He dances on and continues to wee before doing his shorts up and getting down. Moments later he does a runner as security chase him down the street. A source said: 'It's disgraceful. If he'd done that in England, in a bar on a night out, he would have been arrested. "He's a serving police officer and should have known better. There's no excuse for this. It's a small minority who behave like this when they're on holiday. "They do it because they reckon they can get away with it in a different country. But as this video shows, they can't. I hope he's dealt with properly.' The source said the group had been drinking most of the day before hitting Benidorm's bars and clubs. PC Bates, who has been a cop for approximately eight years, flew home at the start of the week. Wild vids show Benidorm bar giving Brits a SLAP across the face after they do shot… but viewers slam drinking game He now faces disciplinary action. South Yorkshire Police said its professional standards unit was investigating the footage. A spokesman said: "This is not reflective of the high standards of professional behaviour that we and our communities expect from a police officer, regardless of them being off duty and out of the country. "The officer's line manager has been made aware and the force's Professional Standards Department has viewed and assessed the footage to commence an investigation." 5 Bates made a dash for it when a security guard tried to get hold of him 5 A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police said Bates's behaviour fell well short of expectations Credit: Facebook A Brit couple are also in hot water over their behaviour on hols in Spain after they racked up a four-figure bill on a cruise ship and dashed without paying. Police said the Brits were arrested on suspicion of fraud at Ibiza Airport after 'pushing their way' off the ship when it docked on the holiday island. It emerged the pair were aboard the Costa Toscana, a Costa Cruises vessel, when they abandoned ship. The ship was making its second stop after leaving the French port of Marseille two days earlier. And sources said the Brits were at the boarding gate of a Ryanair flight to London Stansted when they were taken into custody. The suspects, a man aged 23 and a woman aged 18, had built up a €3,196 (£2,685) tab, which included a bar bill as well as Internet expenses and extras in the ship's casino.
The Irish Sun
02-06-2025
- The Irish Sun
Shock moment Brit police officer exposes himself & wees on Benidorm bar on boozy holiday before being suspended by force
A DRUNK cop has been suspended after he was filmed dropping his shorts and weeing from a podium in a packed Benidorm bar. PC Alex Bates, 30, was on a weekend away with pals in Advertisement 5 PC Alex Bates, 30, was filmed exposing himself and urinating in Benidorm 5 He relieved himself on a podium in the middle of packed bar Credit: The Sun 5 The policeman is now facing disciplinary action back home Credit: Facebook Footage shows revellers cheering and laughing as he then begins urinating onto the infamous He dances on and continues to wee before doing his shorts up and getting down. Moments later he does a runner as security chase him down the street. A source said: 'It's disgraceful. If he'd done that in England , in a bar on a night out, he would have been arrested. Advertisement "He's a serving It's a small minority who behave like this when they're on holiday. "They do it because they reckon they can get away with it in a different country. But as this video shows, they can't. I hope he's dealt with properly.' Advertisement Most read in The Sun The source said the group had been drinking most of the day before hitting Benidorm's bars and clubs. PC Bates, who has been a cop for approximately eight years, flew home at the start of the week. Wild vids show Benidorm bar giving Brits a SLAP across the face after they do shot… but viewers slam drinking game He now faces disciplinary action. South Yorkshire Police said its professional standards unit was investigating the footage. Advertisement A spokesman said: "This is not reflective of the high standards of professional behaviour that we and our communities expect from a police officer, regardless of them being off duty and out of the country. "The officer's line manager has been made aware and the force's Professional Standards Department has viewed and assessed the footage to commence an investigation ." 5 Bates made a dash for it when a security guard tried to get hold of him 5 A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police said Bates's behaviour fell well short of expectations Credit: Facebook Advertisement A Brit couple are also in hot water over their behaviour on hols in Spain after they racked up a four-figure bill on a cruise ship and Police said the Brits were at Ibiza Airport after 'pushing their way' off the ship when it docked on the holiday island. It emerged the pair were aboard the Costa Toscana, a Costa Cruises vessel, when they abandoned ship. The ship was making its second stop after leaving the French port of Marseille two days earlier. Advertisement Read more on the Irish Sun And sources said the Brits were at the boarding gate of a Ryanair flight to London Stansted when they were taken into custody. The suspects, a man aged 23 and a woman aged 18, had built up a €3,196 (£2,685) tab, which included a bar bill as well as Internet expenses and extras in the ship's casino.
Business Insider
23-04-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
HelloSky raised $5.5 million to use AI for recruiting hard-to-reach executives. Check out its pitch deck.
HelloSky, a startup that has built a platform to help recruiters find executives with AI, just raised a $5.5 million seed round. While many hiring platforms focus on staff-level roles, HelloSky was built specifically for high-stakes, complex leadership searches. "Most companies go after staff recruiting first and tack on exec search later," HelloSky's founder and CEO, Alex Bates, told Business Insider. Executive hiring comes with a different set of challenges, according to Bates. These roles, he says, are often confidential and have hard-to-reach criteria, like sector experience, international exposure, past exits, and team fit. Bates said recruiters still rely on LinkedIn, spreadsheets, or memory to find candidates. "It's a system set up to miss the best people — some of whom don't have a LinkedIn." HelloSky helps recruiters and search firms identify and evaluate executive talent whose backgrounds closely match the role — even when they're hard to find through traditional methods. Its "SmartRank" technology converts natural-language job descriptions into key skills and criteria, and then identifies and ranks the most relevant candidates from HelloSky's proprietary data platform. HelloSky says its system has been trained on five years of data from more than 700 expert executive search users, based on how they search, sort, and select candidates. "We kind of spent five years in the wild," said Bates. "It was a lot of heavy data engineering and experimentation with recruiters from day one." The startup says it continuously refines its models based on user behavior, query patterns, and placement outcomes. The platform also maps real-world relationships such as shared board seats or leadership experience, rather than just "superficial LinkedIn ties," Bates said. The platform runs on a subscription model, with customers ranging from corporate hiring teams to retained search firms. Clients include search firms like Caldwell, Eastward Partners, NU Advisory, and Bespoke Partners, who recruit executives for private equity-backed companies. Investors in the oversubscribed round include Caldwell Partners, Karmel Capital, True Capital Partners, Hunt Scanlon Ventures, and angel investors from Google and Cisco. The startup plans to use the new funding to scale its engineering and invest in go-to-market. HelloSky HelloSky HelloSky HelloSky HelloSky HelloSky
