BTP Cop Sacked For Pikey Jokes

[irc]

https://www.btp.police.uk/foi-ai/british-transport...


"Background
You were a member of a WhatsApp group titled ‘Selbie Gumshoes’ together with other
members of your MSOC team.
Allegation 1
On Tuesday the 31st of December 2024, a conversation started about someone winning
a bottle of whiskey which still had a security tag attached. You replied at 22.53 hours “Was
this a raffle on a certain kind of site? Lots of mobile type homes? Lots of ‘Dags’”. You sent
a further message at 22.54 hours saying, “You are the MSOC liaison”

Why does any cop post dodgy jokes on Whatsapp groups? Worth losing your job for?

For the avoidance of doubt any Irish Travellers I have ever had any dealings with have been as honest as the day is long. Proper respectable members of society.

[blingybongy]

irc said:

https://www.btp.police.uk/foi-ai/british-transport...

For the avoidance of doubt any Irish Travellers I have ever had any dealings with have been as honest as the day is long. Proper respectable members of society.

Cough -bull........... st

[Portofino]

irc said:

For the avoidance of doubt any Irish Travellers I have ever had any dealings with have been as honest as the day is long. Proper respectable members of society.

Ha ha!

[Landlubber]

Salt of the earth, real addition to any community.

[dxg]

Just doing as the good Lord intended.

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blingybongy said:

Cough -bull........... st

[Cobnapint]

Firstly, some low life grassed him up.

Secondly, who is likely to be offended by this? Certainly not the subjects of the messages, they're literally proud of what they're like. It's their life...!

[Paul_B]

The police as an organisation are a joke. Have been for a while. More interested in protecting the feelings of those who give absolutely zero fks about anyone but themselves and who are a complete scourge on society, rather than upstanding members of society who go out every day trying to do a good job with both hands tied behind their backs.

[MDMA .]

blingybongy said:

irc said:

https://www.btp.police.uk/foi-ai/british-transport...

For the avoidance of doubt any Irish Travellers I have ever had any dealings with have been as honest as the day is long. Proper respectable members of society.

Cough -bull........... st

It’s the 99.9% of bad ones what spoil it for the rest.

[bergclimber34]

I would deport every single one of them, every plod I know hates them, loathes them,.

[Foss62]

Unless this WhatsApp group was used for official work purposes and/or someone was forced to participate in the ‘conversations’ against their will, I can’t see what the reason for dismissal was?

Holding views that may offend or (more to the point) possibly pretending to hold them for comic purposes, in situations that are intended to be private is surely of no relevance to employment?

It would be different and have relevance to this case if something clearly illegal was going on, but half the country will have equivalent ‘off colour’ material on things like their WhatsApp chats.

[Chicken Chaser]

I wonder how close the cop was to pensionable age. The police seems to be going after long serving cops for trivial causes of misconduct.

[Wacky Racer]

irc said:

For the avoidance of doubt any Irish Travellers I have ever had any dealings with have been as honest as the day is long. Proper respectable members of society.