Sickening messages about raping women, paedophilia and Muslims have been unearthed among serving Met Police officers in a shocking new report from the police watchdog.
MyLondon reports that the Independent Office of Police Conduct found widespread evidence of bullying and discrimination within the ranks in a new inquiry, the results of which were published on Tuesday.
The investigation was launched following evidence which emerged in 2018 that an officer allegedly had sex with a drunk person at a police station.
While the allegation could not be proven, the subsequent inquiries revealed a raft of sexist, homophobic and racist messages by Met Police officers.
Operation Hotton” saw 14 officers investigated by the IOPC, with 10 of the officers found to have a case to answer.
The unit under investigation was disbanded in 2018. Two were found to have a case to answer for gross misconduct. One of these was dismissed following a Special Case Hearing and the other would have been dismissed had they not already resigned.
The type of communication called "banter" by some officers included:
- Messages about police officers attending a festival dressed as known sex offenders and a molested child (sent within a WhatsApp group containing 17 police officers)
- Numerous messages about rape and ‘raping’ each other, published in police WhatsApp and Facebook groups
- Homophobic comments such as “Gayyyyyy”, “You f***ing gay!” and “F*** you bender”
- An officer sending messages saying “I would happily rape you”; “if I was single I would actually hate f*** you” and “if I was single I would happily chloroform you”
The report also found widespread racist comments from officers including:
- "Just walked past the big mosque all the fanatics turn up at to radicalise the young muslims....”
- “My dad kidnapped some African children and used them to make dog food.”
- “Bring all the lefties I say, we can sing “cum by ya” and embrace our multi gender/ethnic and sexual backgrounds whilst denouncing all the fascists in the MET"
- "Yay for Xmas partied [sic]...except of course that's a Christian celebration and I believe in ALL religions so it's not on!! Stick to our own...”
- "Some uniform or plain clothes work on Somalian rats… I battered one the other day…weighed less than [police officer’s name].”
- “Opened my balcony door and loads of flies flew into the front room. So I got the fly spray and turned my gaff into Auschwitz.”
- A police officer sent another officer an image of a Black man wearing a white shirt. His colleague asked, “What’s good about it I don’t get it lol.” He replied, “Ignore the robber…I like the shirt.”
- Use of derogatory terms about people with disabilities, including “s***tics” and “retard”.
- One police officer was referred to as “mcrapey raperson” in a WhatsApp exchange. When officers on his team were asked to provide an explanation for this nickname, it was explained that there were rumours about him bringing a woman back to the police station to have sex with. Others reported it related to his “particular fondness of IC3 and IC4" - police code for Black and Asian people
And the report found a stream of sexist conversations by serving Met officers - including jokes about domestic violence:
A WhatsApp conversation between two police officers ran:
- Officer 1: “And my bird won't stop taking the piss. Swear to got [sic] I'm going to smack her”
- Officer 2: “Slap her one…say you didn’t”
- Officer 1: “I'll f***ing do it. She`s f***** off home.”
A separate WhatsApp conversation between two police officers joked about "slapping" and beating officers' girlfriends:
- Officer 1: “I f***ing need to take my bird out, won’t see her until next Saturday. Then I have to work. Promised to take her out the Friday after. Making it up to her from when I backhanded her”
- Officer 2: “Grab her by the pussy”
- Officer 1: “You ever slapped your missus?”
- Officer 1: “It makes them love you more. Seriously since I did that she won’t leave me alone. Now I know why these daft c***s are getting murdered by their s***tic boyfriends. Knock a bird about and she will love you. Human nature. They are biologically programmed to like that shit.”
Another conversation between officers talked about "blasting" sex workers:
- Officer 1: “I had that massive fight with my bird because she found out I'd been out on the piss with this girl who's a high class hooker a couple of weeks ago Hahahah”
- Officer 2: “I had one in Watford from adult work. Used to f*** her all the time”
- Officer 1: “Yes! Hahaha”
- Officer 2: “Used just hang out and blast her on the sly...when I was on [ste]roids and needed it every hour”
