Calvin Dunne claimed he was unfairly dismissed from the NSW Police Force
He was fired after sexist, racist and derogatory texts he sent were unearthed
He created a work WhatsApp chat with colleagues to make the remarks
Dunne claimed he and his wife were struggling on her $120,000 salary
His application to be reinstated was dismissed due to doubts about his integrity
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Subscriber only It was the police WhatsApp group that has led to a misconduct inquiry, two officers sacked, a man loaded up and wrongly charged - and the messaging app banned across the entire police force. Along the way it also exposed a culture of sexism and derogatory remarks about women, including female colleagues, among frontline police at a Sydney station. And the man who was wrongly charged and spent seven months in jail, Erhan Sevgin, 47, is now suing NSW Police. A group of at least nine general duties police officers based at Botany Bay Local Area Command started the group chat in 2017.
At least nine officers from Botany Bay Local Area Command were involved
The group chat was the subject of an Industrial Relations Commission hearing
Group creator Constable Calvin Dunne wrote she s not hot, but not ugly in 2017
When talking about a senior officer, one constable said the woman was a bit old
An officer said a woman would be worth the rape charge in another exchange
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Subscriber only It was the police WhatsApp group that has led to a misconduct inquiry, two officers sacked, a man loaded up and wrongly charged - and the messaging app banned across the entire police force. Along the way it also exposed a culture of sexism and derogatory remarks about women, including female colleagues, among frontline police at a Sydney station. And the man who was wrongly charged and spent seven months in jail, Erhan Sevgin, 47, is now suing NSW Police. A group of at least nine general duties police officers based at Botany Bay Local Area Command started the group chat in 2017.
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