SEVEN police officers have been discharged from the Humberside Police, and two more have received written warnings, following a misconduct hearing.
The hearing was held in 2019, but according to Humberside Police, they were unable to make the decision public earlier due to a pending legal matter that was resolved on June 30.
Three officers were involved in the first inquiry, including one who provided offensive videos to another officer and two who participated in extremely abusive conversations with each other as well as very significant separate Standards violations.
All three officers were judged to have gross misconduct-level violations of the standards at Special Case Hearings in 2019.
One officer was dismissed without notice and the other two officers, who had already resigned, would have been dismissed had they not already left the force.
In the second investigation, six police officers participated in a WhatsApp group where they were all a part of exchanging wholly inappropriate offensive, sexist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic messages.
At Special Case Hearings in 2019, all six officers were found to have breached the Standards at the gross misconduct level.
Three officers were dismissed without notice and a further officer would have been dismissed had he not already resigned.
The Barred List has all four officers, which precludes them from working in law enforcement.
Due to their communications not being as persistent and targeted as some other messages in the WhatsApp group, two of the officers received only final written warnings.
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