Penny Lancaster is seen on patrol for the first time since becoming a qualified police officer

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Penny Lancaster was seen on patrol for the first time on Friday as she sported a uniform and talked to citizens in London after qualifying as a special police officer. 

The model, 50, who is married to hitmaker Rod Stewart, has been working as a Special Constable with the City Of London Police force after officially obtaining her badge in April.

Penny certainly appeared hard at work as she engaged in a stern conversation with a pedestrian during her shift in the city centre. The man has apparently urinated inside a metal sculpture at Bishopsgate and found himself being reprimanded by the force’s new recruit.

Penny even marched him to the nearest Boots, where she made him buy a bottle of water and return to wash down the sculpture.

Penny rocked a black outfit, chunky boots and a tactical vest which featured an array of pockets and handcuffs for potential arrests. 

She wore the iconic police constable hat and appeared to have an earpiece whilst on duty. 

Penny swept her blonde tresses back in a practical ponytail and kept make-up to a minimum. 

The model raised her hands in apparent frustration as she exchanged words with a surprised passerby.  

During an appearance on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday she said that she hadn’t made any arrests during her five duties to date, but had helped a suicidal woman, who was in ‘desperate’ need. 

Penny told hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley: ‘When you think of policing, you think of the most violent crimes but we’re out there to help the most vulnerable. 

‘At this particular time there’s a lot of incidents on the bridges and I did help someone who was very desperate on the bridge the other night. It can be rewarding in so many ways.’

Penny added that she’s drawing on her life experience and role as a mother for her police work, insisting she has the full support of her rocker husband Rod, 76.

When asked if he tried to dissuade her from taking the job, she said: ‘Not at all. It is dangerous, but the police are the public, the public are the police. 

‘There’s women and men alike – brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, we’re just regular people but we put that uniform on to help protect.’

Penny has managed to go under the radar while on patrol, with her saying no one has recognised her thanks to the uniform, despite her public profile.

She insists the ‘stab vest, armour, baton, cuffs’ ensure she’s ‘dressed as a regular’.

And on why she joined the force, she concluded: ‘The campaigning and charity work I do, this is just an extension of working for the community and for the good of people. It’s free of charge.

‘I’m giving up my time to help the community and that’s why I wanted to become a police officer, to be out there. We’ve got to look after the police and make sure when their lives are taken, punishment is given.’

Penny appeared on GMB alongside PC Harper’s widow Lissie Harper, who was on to discuss Harper’s Law, a mandatory life sentence for those who kill emergency workers due to a criminal act.

Lissie started the campaign after she was left ‘outraged’ over the sentences handed to three teenagers over her husband’s death.

Henry Long, 19, was sentenced to 16 years and 18-year-olds Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers were handed 13 years in custody over manslaughter, after Harper was caught in a strap attached to the back of a car driven by Long down a winding country road in Berkshire on the night of August 15 2019.

Penny revealed in April that she had become a qualified police officer after training for City Of London Police on one weeknight every week and from 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday every other weekend.

She was inspired to undergo training after taking part in Channel 4’s 2019 series, Famous and Fighting Crime, in which celebrities shadowed police offers on the beat.

Speaking about the experience in an Instagram Live last year, she confessed: ‘It was terrifying but I never felt more comfortable in a position and I felt like this is where I was supposed to be. I have signed up to be an officer.

‘I had to sit exams, English and maths type of exams, and go for an interview with two officers. And then I did a fitness test which was the bleep test which was pretty tricky so I had to get fit for that and I passed.’

The former lingerie model previously described her police training as being part of ‘who she is’. 

Speaking to The Mail On Sunday in December, Penny said: ‘This is who I am. I could be walking the red carpet with Rod, or I could be in our stable with my goats.

‘But there comes a time when everyone questions themselves and asks, “Who am I? Who am I at my core?” This is what I feel I should always have been doing. It’s about identity.’