Feb. 3 (UPI) —<\/span> An investigative police report issued Thursday details evidence of “discrimination, misogyny, harassment and bullying” by Metropolitan Police officers in London.<\/p>\n This police misconduct included racist, bullying and aggressive behavior, discrimination, toxic masculinity, misogyny, sexual harassment and banter used to excuse oppressive and offensive behaviors, according to the report.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n The report said some racist messages were posted by police on social media, including one that said, “My dad kidnapped some African children and used them to make dog food.”<\/p>\n Black and Asian officers spoke of being ostracized, according to the report.\n<\/p>\n The Operation Hotton 15-page report said this evidence was found “involving officers predominantly based at Charing Cross Police Station.”<\/p>\n That Charing Cross police team was disbanded, but the report says there was evidence of this behavior in subsequent investigations.<\/p>\n “We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behavior of a few “bad apples,” the report said.\n<\/p>\n Among the misconduct cited in the report were a police officer assaulting his partner, an officer who had sex with a drunk person at the police station, and discriminatory actions and behaviors in WhatsApp messages.<\/p>\n The report said Operation Hotton was a series of nine linked independent investigations into police conduct. Most officers, the report said, held the rank of constable and were predominantly based at Charing Cross Police Station.\n<\/p>\n The report recommends 15 changes in policing practices, including taking sufficient steps to eradicate racism from the police force.<\/p>\n The recommendations also include making sure allegations of police bullying and harassment are “adequately detached and independent”.<\/p>\n The IOPC urged a zero-tolerance policy on police bullying and harassment.<\/p>\n Past police misconduct in London has included sharing photos of two women who were killed.<\/p>\n In September 2021, a former London police officer pleaded guilty to murdering a woman after falsely arresting her.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1\/4 Police scuffle with protesters in London on April 3. They were protesting a bill that would give police greater powers. Photo by Neil Hall\/EPA-EFE Feb. 3 (UPI) — An investigative police report issued Thursday details evidence of “discrimination, misogyny, harassment and bullying” by Metropolitan Police officers in London. This police misconduct included racist, bullying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Police scuffle with protesters in London on April 3. They were protesting a bill that would give police greater powers. Photo by Neil Hall\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n