Dead offices iphone exposes misogyny corruption and racism in police force Gwent

I'm thinking that up and down the country, police WhatsApp groups are erasing their history.

Just wait till they get wind of all the drug use.

Knowing a couple of officers from Gwent police, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

This doesn't surprise me 🥲. One of the most awful relationships I ever had was with a member of the police force he wasn't even a police officer he was office staff but this stuff runs deep. It's been years now and even after counselling and medication I am still suffering from ptsd. I can't actually read the article because it's very triggering but from the comments on here I get the jist. Its just normalised behaviour with them.

I'm surprised the phone wasn't accidentally damaged after being handed over.
Maybe they were worried the family copied the information before giving them the phone.

Thanks Rex - troubling stuff, not least the cop who was able to deal with the complaint made against himself.

Jeez 🤮

Update in today's Times

Gwent police officers joked about Jimmy Savile and ‘sex pests’ in the force

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/abe992ec-680c-11ed-9960-a1f4eb634c35?shareToken=b57295d00326eb74a3860445df182b00

I would suggest more stringent vetting is needed from the start of recruiting and continuing through the service of each officer.

Any convictions should preclude you from being a police officer and they should also use intelligence gathered on an individual too to vet them.

Sickening. His poor family.

This has been going on in Gwent Police for 40 years at least .
One of my friends was doing a post doctoral work (in the adjacent City).
Her husband was a cop and everyone who had known them since undergrad absolutely HATED him for his corruption bullying and misogyny.
He must have hated her for being such an academic and she was lovely too.
I really hope she divorced him a long time ago.
The investigation might need to go back a few more years.

I read that earlier. How is anyone meant to have confidence that Wiltshire Police are the appropriate organisation to investigate Gwent Police?

The Beeb has reported on this story at last: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63616908

Ach, let's just slap some rainbow paint on the cars and do the macarena at pride, that'll sort it out

I’ve read some grim things on here but bloody hell, I think this must be one of the absolute worst.

It’s beyond revolting.

The men who want to become police are not the sort of people who should ever be given that power.

That Gwent article is horrific.

The whole police institution is rotten to the core. And it’s not just the men. I know 2 female coppers sacked for abusing their positions to intimidate a witness, another who assaulted a ‘love rival’ on a night out and used her position to get away with it, and a 4th (fairly high ranking) who has passed on information to her civilian friends about matters she shouldn’t have. It’s truly frightening. Who do you go to when you can’t trust the police to do what’s right? It starts to get quite scary when you think about it. The whole service is full of bullies. Yes there are some fantastic police officers undoubtedly, but I’ve never met one.

That was a horrific read. There is just nowhere to turn, when the law enforcement agencies are criminals themselves.

The refusal of the police to act on death and rape threats towards women, their refusal to protect women in the course of pre booked, legal protests, the heavy handed and threatening visits for ‘ thought crimes’ are all so much more explicable , though.

Can this thread be moved to AIBU or chat where it will get a wider audience?

And today a 27 year old serving Lancashire Police Officer has been charged with attempted murder of a woman at a hotel in Manchester.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11422497/Serving-officer-Lancashire-Police-charged-attempted-murder.html

There is something very seriously wrong in the Police we urgently need a full, transparent, open, no holds barred Public Enquiry.

There is a crowdfunder for a legal case brought by his wife and daughters, it’s linked at the bottom of the Times Article.

I just can't imagine how horrifying it was for his daughter going through his phone and uncovering such atrocious, disgusting evidence of gaslighting, betrayal, intrusion and criminality. The recording of arguments, the photos of his daughters' bedrooms sent to his other woman. Sounds like living with him was hell but to uncover the layers of disrespect and loathing he had for his wife and children, never mind his colleagues and women in general after his death - poor family. I hope they are all getting the support they need.

It isn't even 'a few rotten apples,' is it? it's the whole damned barrel. Hell, that was a difficult read.