BBCThe top of the Met’s Black Police Affiliation (MBPA) has been discovered to have dedicated gross misconduct over a bunch chat the place racist, sexist and inappropriate messages had been despatched and obtained.
Insp Charles Ehikioya was in a WhatsApp chat with former officer Carlo Francisco the place offensive messages had been shared.
The officer had denied the allegations in opposition to him and stated the claims had been fabricated or falsely attributed to him due to his race or place as chair of the MBPA.
A panel discovered his conduct amounted to a breach of the requirements {of professional} behaviour and stated it was “so critical as to doubtlessly justify dismissal”.
The panel, led by Cdr Jason Prins, discovered Insp Ehikioya breached requirements in respect of equality and variety, discreditable conduct and difficult and reporting improper conduct confirmed at a listening to on Friday.
A call on whether or not he will probably be dismissed has not been made but.
In additional than 7,000 messages between 2017 and 2020, the officer was stated to have despatched and obtained jokes, footage and movies, it was heard beforehand.
He despatched a picture of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with the remark “message from the opposite aspect, inform the Muslims there is no 72 virgins left”, it was beforehand stated.
There was additionally a sequence of “racist” messages about Chinese language individuals, the listening to was informed.
Jokes about intercourse with a lady with Down’s syndrome, and mockery of the late Duke of Edinburgh’s automotive crash, had been additionally within the chatlog, as was a video wherein there was a toddler with a unadorned backside, James Berry, representing the Met, stated beforehand.
PA MediaOn 1 April 2019, Insp Ehikioya informed Mr Francisco to “cease sending or receiving these foolish porns”, saying he might get into “bother”, the listening to was informed.
Cdr Prins stated the panel “discovered that Inspector Ehikioya has engaged in racist, sexist, misogynistic and in any other case inappropriate behaviour”.
He added: “The panel finds to a big extent that the messages converse for themselves.”
He additionally stated they discovered his defence of the allegations to be “fanciful” and “far-fetched”.
Cdr Prins stated: “The panel discovered that the messages despatched by Inspector Ehikioya or obtained by him, which he didn’t problem or report, deeply injury public confidence within the police service.”
The listening to was adjourned till in a while Friday for the panel to think about its sanction.
