Met Officers being investigated- Katie Price’s son

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Katie Price's son, Harvey, has allegedly been the subject of "inappropriate and derogatory" images shared by a number of Metropolitan Police officers via WhatsApp.

The allegations are understood to concern officers' involvement in a group chat between 2016 and 2018.

Reacting to the notifying letter, Price said “It's disgusting that police officers from here have felt the need to laugh and use disgusting content on Harvey by creating a what's app group."

So disgusted by this but no longer surprised 😡

If true, no surprise at all.

Katie Price’s lifestyle is completely irrelevant.

What are you trying to imply with this?

It's an interesting one if the Watsapp was private. Is this another form of censorship, considering I would guess this was a publicly available meme shared in bad taste. Something that has gone on for decades it's just now traceable.

The days of dark humour seem to be coming to a close. I do worry about the effect this will have on team moral in high pressure professions like the police. It's also a threat to net neutrality.

yes indeed. KP's lifestyle and behaviour is irrelevant.

This is a highly vulnerable person being mocked by people who are meant to uphold the dignity and rights of everyone.

They are despicable people. Despicable. I hope that getting sacked is the very bloody least that happens.

I also find it shocking that we have a situation where people simply do not trust the police. The police. My own 12 year old mused this weekin the course of a passing conversation- that if he were in trouble he was not sure he would go to the police for help. That made me draw a breath, because I think in the core of me - despite everything- I still think of the police as the people you trust. That just seemed counter-intuitive to my child.

Sadly, where the police are concerned, nothing surprises me anymore. They should hold their heads in shame.

The police are there to protect people and disabled people are some of the most vulnerable there are. The met seem to be a disgusting bunch of ableist, misogynistic, racist men, it's just horrible.

I've seen quite a lot of Harvey 'jokes' over the years, mostly on SM football groups.

The Met seems to have more than its fair share of 'laddy' types who chat shit to each other freely. I'm glad the culture is changing and hope the twunts are quaking in the boots.

My dd is 24 and lives in London. She sees the metropolitan police as a threat. She is an ordinary young woman. This is the reality of the met.

I wish I could say I'm surprised but I'm not. Not like the police have not been caught doing similar or worse before. And there is nothing KP has done or could do that means that posting/sharing nakd mocking pictures of a disabled minor is anything other than disgusting. The police are meant to know and do better. It doesn't work for anything else does it. Someone gets pulled over for drunk driving so it doesn't matter of police do it? I dont think so.

Poor Harvey.

Sharing and mocking

Sorry my screen is cracked and I can't always read my posts properly

It is shocking. Shocking.

Ok I had no idea.

Nothing I read about the Police surprises me anymore. I am surprised anyone has any faith in them, at all. No doubt there are some decent officers out there. They just seem to be few, and far between tough.

I completely agree about the Police - definately in need of an overhaul.

But i do believe KP’s motives are very relevant here. she has had numerous interactions with Police the court system - and this will be used to help either prevent her getting off with the next such interaction or worse - it even being dealt with.

When I went through education - I was always taught to look at “who is the source and what is their agenda”.

I have no idea if 1 person posted an inappropriate 1 liner about Harvey, and 7 other members of a whatsapp group saw it and didn’t report it (although someone may have hence its now subject to investigation) or if 8 members of a whatsapp group created a whatsapp group specifically for denigrating Harvey and it went on for months.

This post exemplifies how the general public are made to be sheep by wolves and turn on the sheepdog whilst two shepherds argue about the best way for a flock to be managed.

So @Grumpybutfunny you think it is fine for police officers to have WhatsApp groups mocking disabled children? You think that mocking disabled children is good for "team morale"?

You have no idea what these messages contained, nor how they came to light. But clearly someone involved was concerned or upset, and blew the whistle. If the people involved hadn't breached rules or protocols as regards professional conduct then I doubt this would have come to light nor would it be investigated.

The Met are a disgrace.

@ThisWOMANWontWheesht I think their is more to it than is being made out. I have a suspicion some officer has been excluded from a group chat and had run off to senior management.

Go put Harvey into WhatsApp gifs some of them are in bad taste, do I think police discipline should be getting involved in stuff like that. No I don't. To me it shouldn't have gone further than the officer superior going oi you lot, not cool grow up and as punishment all the cars need cleaning after shift enjoy!

It would be different if they had been say mocking a disabled prisoner.

The mentality needed to deal with what the police see day in day out and still go home to a normal family life is unique. A lot deal with it with dark humour, if you start saying you need be golder than gold I would seriously worry we are going to lose excellent police officers (plus army, medics, fire etc) time and time again as they just won't cope.

I do think things like WhatsApp and social media should be private and not come into the professional scope of anyone

I agree with you. People seem to forget that the Police are drawn from the communities that they serve. They are normal people with the same initial experiences as the rest of us. The problems and attitudes here go way deeper than the Met.

I.used to.be a mentsl.health nurse working in acute mental health we also.dealt with things day in day out that were incredibly stressful and used dark.humour but we never mocked disabled children and certainly not in line.
As the parent of a disabled child I find it abhorrent that people think this kind of behaviour is ok.

It would be different if they had been say mocking a disabled prisoner

I'm not at all sure where to start with this statement. So there are categories of disabled people it's perfectly OK to mock?

I have a suspicion some officer has been excluded from a group chat and had run off to senior management

Or is disgusted with some people's behaviour? the things that some people will excuse. Still, at least you didn't call it 'banter.'

How disgusting.

Oh hang on - that latest comment about mocking a disabled prisoner being acceptable is awful. It’s most definitely not.

I can’t stand Katie Price as a person but as a mother who has had to fight all her life for her child I do feel for her. It would be heartbreaking for any mother to read something like this.

@Grumpybutfunny

There have to be certain standards of conduct and lines that shouldn't be crossed. Lots of people have difficult and stressful jobs, but it doesn't lead them to such awful behaviour; it's hardly inevitable. There are better, and more professional, ways to unwind.

The people who behave like this are not "excellent police officers", they're stupid an careless, for a start, as well as unprofessional. Dark humour to break the tension is a quiet word to a trusted colleague, not a WhatsApp group mocking a disabled child.

Don't forget this is the Met, where "The rapist" and "The bastard" worked with those nicknames for years before being convicted of murder and rape, so their behaviours were clearly well known, and tolerated, by colleagues; where around 1000 cases of sexual assault by officers are being investigated; where images of two murdered sisters were shared on a WhatsApp group, just for fun.

I.used to.be a mentsl.health nurse working in acute mental health we also.dealt with things day in day out that were incredibly stressful and used dark.humour but we never mocked disabled children and certainly not in line.
As the parent of a disabled child I find it abhorrent that people think this kind of behaviour is ok.

Which goes to show that some people working in exceptionally stressful jobs, like @x2boys, have more decency and integrity when (understandably) de-stressing via gallows humour.

Anyone working in acute mental health will have regularly witnessed distressing situations above and beyond most of our experience.

So the excuse that an equally challenging police role somehow trumps that, and warrants a free pass to pick on vulnerable kids, smacks of those officers involved possessing a questionable moral compass.

And a very concerning lack of boundaries.

The Met again. Is there something in the water there?