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.
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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.
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Six officers have been found guilty of gross misconduct after racist, sexist and homophobic comments were caught on tape. (Envato)
Six officers in the Hampshire Police Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) have been found guilty of gross misconduct after their racist, sexist, homophobic comments were caught on tape.
Between March and April, 2018, secret recording equipment was set up in the unit, based in Basingstoke, after a staff member complained via the force’s confidential reporting system.
At a police misconduct hearing in October, 2020, it was revealed that six Hampshire Police officers, including two senior officers within the SOCU, had been recorded using racist, transphobic and homophobic slurs.
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