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A pleasant surprise

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APleasantSurprise · 01/06/2019 11:15

NC for this as very outing.

I came across a number of Tweets from a user whose profile described him as a serving officer with the Met. This is the complaint I sent yesterday:

Jon Killen, a emergency response officer in the MPS and LGBT+ officer, is issuing Tweets that I consider misogynist. His Twitter account (@LDNResponseCop) clearly identifies him professionally, so he cannot argue that he's only offering personal opinions. I cannot think his social media presence is doing anything good for the Met. It seems highly unprofessional. Certainly I would have less confidence were I involved in an incident and had to deal with Jon Killen than I would in a generic officer. Please look at what he's saying - and the response from many LGBT Twitter users who find his Tweets offensive. The police must be seen to be impartial.

I got a call from an inspector this morning. He'd gone through the officer's Tweets and agreed with me. He said it wasn't a disciplinary matter as there were no personally offensive Tweets but that the Tweets definitely overstepped the bounds of what a serving police officer should be saying on social media. A conversation was in order and he would be talking to the officer soon.

Only a small step, but I was pleased the Met seems to have taken it seriously.

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nauticant · 01/06/2019 12:19

I live in hope FloralBunting. After all, it's a lovely day and the start of the weekend.

Wouldn't it be great if he could take another look at the thread on twitter and think, "all these women, including feminists, lesbians, professionally qualified, and the rest, what if they are right?!"

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 01/06/2019 12:19

That's good news. Well done.

AncientLights · 01/06/2019 12:19

If they are the Tweets I've seen then he was accusing someone of being directly responsible for trans people's deaths. Reminiscent of La Belcher & Janice Turner (think that's who it was). That didn't end well for Belcher. Some Tweets were encouraging the suing of the policeman. Not sure your inspector is taking it quite seriously enough.

misscockerspaniel · 01/06/2019 12:16

Well done. Fight fire not with fire but with water, to douse and extinguish the flames.

FloralBunting · 01/06/2019 12:03

nauticant I find myself indulging a wry smile at the suggestion a wokeyblokey 'reflect' which has such delightfully patronizing overtones and is so often used to clobber women in a superior manner. Excellent use of language.

DancingRaven · 01/06/2019 12:01

Excellent work, the tweets to Lily Maynard were particularly problematic for a police officer to send

nauticant · 01/06/2019 11:56

Well done OP. Especially since the action proposed by The Met looks to be proportionate. The best outcome would be for Killen to reflect on what he said and start to see the problems with it.

FloralBunting · 01/06/2019 11:55

Expecting the police to not be misogynistic and holding then to those standards might be remarkably naive but it's not petty. Or don't you believe public institutions should be accountable?

justju · 01/06/2019 11:53

Come off it Catapultaway.

There's a huge difference between spotting someone being an arse who's using their job title for authority, and reporting them to their employer - and between trawling Twitter for any women who happen to be employed anyoldwhere while making comments you personally disagree with.

Catapultaway · 01/06/2019 11:31

Yes well done. Trawling twitter for things you don't like to report to their employers, sounds familiar, also sounds petty and tedious.
If this was the other way round you would be calling it for what it is.

WhereYouLeftIt · 01/06/2019 11:28

Well done! I saw these tweets yesterday, IIRC another officer was telling him ti wind his neck intoo (although far more politely).

Lumene · 01/06/2019 11:27

Great news.

OhHolyJesus · 01/06/2019 11:26

Result OP! Well done for pursuing this.

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