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by Ava Benny-Morrison
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It was the police WhatsApp group that has led to a misconduct inquiry, two officers sacked, a man "loaded up" and wrongly charged - and the messaging app banned across the entire police force.
Along the way it also exposed a culture of sexism and derogatory remarks about women, including female colleagues, among frontline police at a Sydney station.
And the man who was wrongly charged and spent seven months in jail, Erhan Sevgin, 47, is now suing NSW Police.
A group of at least nine general duties police officers based at Botany Bay Local Area Command started the group chat in 2017.