Sergeant David Shaw and PC Chris Gawronek sent thousands of racist, misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic messages
Two Merseyside police officers resigned before they could be kicked off the force for sharing thousands of messages including racist, homophobic, misogynistic and transphobic slurs.
Shaw sent a picture of Ms Johnson to his colleague, PC Chris Gawronek, with an offensive caption. Gawronek responded with a laughing face emoji. After a colleague said one of his messages, also involving a racist joke, was "awful", Shaw quipped: "For the purposes of any PSD investigation I agree they are awful."
PC Chris McGlade, from the Merseyside Police Federation which represents rank and file officers, said he had received no instructions ahead of the hearing but had recently received an email from Shaw defending his interest in his joinery business. She said: "Both parties should have stopped these vile and abhorrent messages. Instead they have both been party to and instigators of many vile and abhorrent messages over a four year period.Both officers were found guilty of gross misconduct by CC Kennedy for breaching standards of behaviour around Discreditable Conduct, Authority, Respect & Courtesy and Challenging and reporting Improper Conduct.
“The public must have faith that we can police fairly and impartially and that the people we employ not only adhere by the highest standards but also seek to actively challenge and report when they identify improper conduct.
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