A police officer will keep her job after sharing a post mocking Madeleine McCann's disappearance from a Portuguese hotel room.
PC Paula Manos shared a social media post on the day Britain went into lockdown on March 23, which read: "I need a holiday so much I'd be willing to go away with the McCanns".
The 48-year-old will not have to stand down as an officer and will instead be encouraged to "reflect and learn from the issue" during a review process.
The controversy relates to a comment which appeared on a Facebook account linked to the officer, a beat manager in Thornbury, Gloucestershire.
The mother-of-one is accused of joking that she was so bored she would even go on holiday with Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter Madeleine vanished during a family getaway in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.
Kate and Gerry McCann have been the subject of countless cruel comments over the disappearance of their daughter.
The parents left three-year-old Madeleine and her 18-month-old twin siblings, Sean and Amelie, sleeping alone in the family's holiday apartment while the couple went for dinner with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant.
Twenty-three Facebook users reacted to the post with a laughing or shocked emoji, or a like.
Pc Manos responded with a GIF of Mr Bean dropping a glass, followed shortly by a cat with a shocked expression.
A source said of the McCann post: "It's not the sort of thing one would expect the police to be doing.
"I think that it is wrong and a bit disturbing."
Avon and Somerset Constabulary said it had investigated but that the post did not "meet the threshold of misconduct".
A force spokeswoman said: "However it does fall short of standards of behaviour expected by the public and police and will be dealt with under the 'practice requires improvement' process.
"The officer is expected to engage with a review process in which they are encouraged to reflect and learn from the issue."
Last month, German prosecutors announced a major breakthrough in the McCann case, saying they believe Madeleine is dead and they are investigating a 43-year-old German man for murder.
The new suspect is a child sex predator who has been convicted in Germany of sexually abusing two girls, and of raping a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz about 18 months before Maddie vanished just days before her fourth birthday.
