Officer wrote 'kitchen bitch' on ticket

Taliah Butters, 17, was shocked by the policeman's description of her occupation on the speeding ticket. Photo / Greymouth Star

A highway patrol officer will be reprimanded after he admitted writing "kitchen bitch" as the occupation of a Greymouth teenager on an infringement ticket he issued her.

After receiving the $400 fine, she "just threw it into the glove box".

She found it again when she cleaned out the car this week.

"I sat there and read it and when I saw what the cop had written under 'occupation', I just ran inside and told my Nan. I couldn't believe a cop would write anything like that."

"I told him I was a kitchen hand and part-time chef. I never said I was a 'kitchen bitch'."

"In fact, I have already spoken to the officer concerned, from Nelson, and he has admitted writing the words 'kitchen bitch' on the ticket, but according to him that is what she told him."