Police service is too white, says Hampshire s chief constable after racism scandal
Five officers were sacked from the service s Serious Organised Crime Unit for using racist, sexist, and homophobic language
10 January 2021 • 5:43pm
A police force is too white, which is not OK , a chief constable has conceded in the wake of a racism scandal.
Olivia Pinkney, chief constable of Hampshire Police, admitted she is concerned by a lack of diversity in the ranks, adding she is aware her own senior leadership team look the way they do .
Chief constable Pinkney made the remarks after five officers were sacked from the service s Serious Organised Crime Unit for using racist, sexist, and homophobic language.
Cops sacked for sharing obscene images from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s wedding
Entertainment
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
Life on Mars cops sacked after sting finds enough racism to last a lifetime
A team of cops have been fired after they were recorded on a secret bug using vile, offensive language that included transphobic and homophobic language (Image: PA)
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Updated photos of the Police Investigation Centre, Basingstoke..March 22nd 2017.Photography by Sarah Gaunt taken 22.03.17. MEMBERS of a police unit who have been branded as demonstrating “shameful” behaviour have been dismissed from the service after they were covertly recorded making ‘offensive and disrespectful’ remarks. Six officers at Hampshire Constabulary’s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) based at the Northern Police Investigation Centre, in Basingstoke, were found guilty of gross misconduct after they were recorded using ‘racist, sexist and homophobic’ language. Today, following a lengthy misconduct hearing, five of the six officers were dismissed from the force without notice for breaching the Standards of Professional Behaviour.
Detective Inspector Timothy ireson (Credit: Solent News and Photo Agency) THE commanding officer of a toxic specialist police unit accepts that his failings of management helped lead to the discriminatory atmosphere that developed amongst his officers, a tribunal has heard. Six police officers could face the sack after being found to have committed gross misconduct after they were recorded making abhorrent comments while working at Hampshire police s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) office in Basingstoke. The officers were recorded by a bugging device making abhorrent racist, sexist, homophobic and other inappropriate comments. Retired Detective Inspector Tim Ireson, Detective Sergeant Oliver Lage, Detective Sergeant Gregory Willcox, former PC Craig Bannerman, trainee Detective Constable Andrew Ferguson and PC James Oldfield have all been found to have breached professional standards at a disciplinary hearing.