Cops sacked for sharing obscene images from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s wedding
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Sun, Jan 10, 2021
The fake porn images were sent to a WhatsApp group shortly after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s wedding
As many as five police officers were sacked and removed from duty after they shared a string of explicit and highly offensive fake porn images of the British royal family.
The fake pictures were circulated online and sent to a WhatsApp group shortly after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s nuptials took place in 2018,
BBC reported.
The cops were part of a Hampshire Police unit which had a “toxic” attitude towards ethnic minorities, immigrants and women, according to the
The police officers referred to transgender people as tranny faggots , a misconduct panel heard.
Police officers who made enough racist, sexist and homophobic comments to “last a lifetime” have been sacked for gross misconduct.
The officers mocked LGBT+ people as “queers” and “horrible tranny faggots”, as well joking about migrants drowning, referring to a Black colleague as a “mixed breed” of dog with “forged Nigerian documents”, and called women as “sluts” and “whores”.
The trio, who all worked for a “toxic” unit at Hampshire police, were secretly bugged in 2018 and found to regularly engage in these “offensive” conversations. They were found guilty of gross misconduct in December 2020.
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image captionFormer Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving
Three members of a toxic police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their offensive conversations were secretly bugged.
The devices picked up homophobic, racist and sexist conversations in the offices of Hampshire s Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.
A number of force staff referred to it as a lads pad .
Two other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.
The misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime .
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image captionFormer Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years
Six members of a toxic police unit have been found guilty of gross misconduct after their offensive conversations were secretly recorded.
Investigators bugged the Northern Serious Organised Crime Unit s office in Basingstoke, Hampshire, and analysed messages over a 24-day period in 2018.
The Northern Serious Organised Crime Unit was homophobic, racist and sexist , a misconduct panel heard.
The panel is due to consider sanctions at a later date.
Jason Beer QC, prosecuting, previously said a toxic, abhorrent culture had developed amongst some officers because of a lack of leadership .