News by Ava Benny-Morrison Premium Content 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.