Head of Metropolitan Black Police Association dismissed for gross misconduct
10th January 2025
A misconduct panel of the Metropolitan Police Service has today dismissed Inspector E, who is the chair of the Metropolitan Black Police Association.
Inspector E faced allegations that he sent numerous highly inappropriate messages to PC F and failed to challenge and report similar messages sent to him by PC F between 2017 and 2020.
The panel found that Inspector E had engaged in racist, sexist, misogynistic, ableist and otherwise inappropriate messaging and failed to challenge similar messaging from PC F, (who had already been dismissed for other matters).
Inspector E’s defence was that he had not sent or received any of the messages concerned. He submitted that the messages had been fabricated by PC F or by the Directorate of Professional Standards (“DPS”) with a racist motive. The Panel dismissed this defence as “spurious” and “fanciful”. It “strongly rejected” the counter-allegation against DPS.
James Berry and Chloe Hill represented the Appropriate Authority who brought the allegations. Laura Nash assisted with the preparation of the case.
James, Chloe and Laura regularly present and defend misconduct proceedings and appear in associated appeals and judicial review challenges.
The case attracted significant media coverage: see BBC; Guardian; Times.
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