Eight officers are the subject of a misconduct hearing after sharing 'plainly offensive' messages featuring 'routine misogyny' and 'casual racism'
Police officers exchanged pictures of "death scenes" and shared WhatsApp messages characterised by "routine misogyny" and "casual racism", a misconduct hearing has heard.
Read more: Video captures horrific screams and brutal biting as two dogs savage man and child in Sheffield street Ms Checa-Dover gave the panel a series of examples from the WhatsApp chat. She said that, when discussing a member of the public referred to as Miss A, PC X posted: “Miss A on a bridge …. jump, jump, jump.” And she said PC Habeeb joked about a colleague committing suicide.
Get all the latest and breaking West Yorkshire court news straight to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter here. She said that, in a conversation complaining about a “vulnerability appointment” with a member of the public, PC Riddett said “probably asking for it anyway”, which the barrister told the panel was “an inappropriate, victim-blaming comment”.
Ms Checa-Dover told the panel the eight officers “engaged in conversations, via the exchange of messages, which were characterised by routine misogyny, casual racism, the proliferation of derogatory, offensive and discriminatory language, and mean-spirited and bullying remarks about colleagues and members of the public.”
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