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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 Hampshire s Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.
A number of force staff referred to it as a lads pad .
Two other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.
The misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime .