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A HAMPSHIRE police officer caught drug driving is among those barred from the force in the past five years.

Police service is too white, says Hampshires chief constable after racism scandal Five officers were sacked from the services 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 lea...

Cops sacked for sharing obscene images from Meghan Markle and Prince Harrys wedding Entertainment Sun, Jan 10, 2021 The fake porn images were sent to a WhatsApp group shortly after Meghan Markle and Prince Harrys 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 an...

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) The Daily Stars FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up today! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these n...

Racist, sexist, homophobic police officers sacked Visharo/Shutterstock 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 allow...

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 “whor...

BBC News Published image copyrightSolent News image captionFormer Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving Three members of a "toxic" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their "offensive" conversations were secretly bugged. The devices picked up "homophobic, racist and sexist" conversations in the offices of Hampshires Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard. A number of force ...

Five officers from serious crime unit recorded making racist, sexist and other inappropriate comments

During their decades of police service, the Basingstoke Six must have heard every excuse in the book from the many criminals they collared. So when they found themselves standing in the dock, so to speak, and asked to account for behaviour that was racist, sexist and homophobic, the expectations for their explanations were set quite high. Sadly, to a man, they disappointed. PC Craig Bannerman, for example, was accused of failing to challenge colleagues when they made foul and degrading referenc...

BBC News Published image captionFormer Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years Six members of a "toxic" police unit have been found guilty of gross misconduct after their "offensive" conversations were secretly recorded. Investigators bugged the Northern Serious Organised Crime Units office in Basingstoke, Hampshire, and analysed messages over a 24-day period in 2018. The Northern Serious Organised Crime Unit was "homophobic, racist and sexist", a misconduct panel heard. The panel is due...