Racist, sexist, homophobic police officers sacked
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Three police officers at Hampshire Constabulary’s serious organised crime unit (Socu) have been sacked for gross misconduct after their ‘lads’ pad’ was secretly bugged following concerns raised by a whistleblower.
The panel heard a catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all and understandably left people with many questions about how this has been allowed to happen” – Olivia Pinkney, Hampshire chief constable
A further two detectives would have been dismissed had they not left the force already.
Detective sergeant Oliver Lage, DS Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield were dismissed without notice, while their retired commanding officer, detective inspector Tim Ireson, and former PC Craig Bannerman would have been sacked by the force’s disciplinary tribunal, it stated.
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.