A Metropolitan Police officer who worked at Charing Cross police station has been sacked after he was secretly filmed “boasting about and revelling in the use of force” on a detainee.
The undercover footage, which was aired on a BBC Panorama programme, shows Pc Jason Sinclair-Birt tell a colleague he “whacked the shit out of the back of his legs” while discussing the use of force on a detainee, an accelerated misconduct hearing in south London was told on Friday.
