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Senior police special used offensive term because he s Dutch, not racist
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Senior police special used offensive term because he s Dutch, not racist
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A police chief has been sacked for using the term pikeys in a WhatsApp message to a colleague.
Chief Special Officer Tom Haye was taken to a misconduct hearing and sacked for gross misconduct after he used the term which is derogatory for members of the Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers community.
The senior Hampshire Constabulary officer with 30 years experience - who disputed that it amounted to gross misconduct - had been in a conversation with a colleague who was house-sitting for him and when he said it keeps the pikeys out .
Hampshire Constabulary sacked five officers last month after a whistleblower revealed details of the racist, sexist and homophobic language that was rife at one of its units.