Ex-Met officer arrested for racist WhatsApp chat

[Barry]

Of course, Dixon of Dock Green was a figment of imagination and he didn't exist.
What has happened is a breakdown in discipline across society, through government, police, courts, prisons and on the streets and even in social media.
Discipline, lack of, is the problem.

[cromwell]

"Evening all"  

It's funny though that things like the police,politics,nhs and the link in this provided by the bbc were all once revered British institutions are now the subject of mistrust and disdain something went wrong not just with the met but across the whole of society which someone famously said
doesn't exist,

[Streetwalker]

What happened to Dixon of Dock Green and the British Bobby. Were they ever there, or were they just a figment of the establishment's imagination?

What happened was mass immigration 

That doesnt excuse the idiots on twiter  now employed by the MET .Jack Warner though would have trouble keeping a lid on todays criminals by just walking the beat ,I think his like was finnally killed off on Broadwater farm .

[papasmurf]

What happened to Dixon of Dock Green and the British Bobby. Were they ever there, or were they just a figment of the establishment's imagination?

A figment of the nation's imagination.

[patman post]

What happened to Dixon of Dock Green and the British Bobby. Were they ever there, or were they just a figment of the establishment's imagination?

An ex-Met Police officer, suspended after a BBC investigation revealed he had been posting racist content on WhatsApp, has been arrested.

Rob Lewis, now a Home Office official, is being held on suspicion of offences under the Communications Act and misconduct in a public office.

BBC Newsnight has seen racist messages about flooding in Pakistan, as well as Harry and Meghan, shared in the chat.

The Home Office suspended him, calling the messages "vile and deplorable".

It said it had "a zero-tolerance approach to anyone displaying racist or discriminatory behaviour".

Rob Lewis is understood to have created the group chat, which also included other former Met police officers.

Newsnight has been passed dozens of messages, by a member of the group. Many are too offensive to show. Some contain the very strongest racial slurs.

Some of the posts reference the government's Rwanda policy, while others joke about recent flooding in Pakistan, which left almost 1,700 people dead. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also feature in several memes, alongside racist language.

Several of the members of the WhatsApp group used to work for the Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG), a specialist operations branch of the Met that guards the Houses of Parliament and protects ministers.

Newsnight understands serving police officers were part of the group in question until recently, but many left following the murder of Sarah Everard, last year. Ms Everard was murdered by Wayne Couzens, who was a member of the same specialist branch.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63164818
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/scotland-yard-racism-storm-metropolitan-police-rob-lewis-b1030679.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 96647.html

And the Met's response on its website:
https://news.met.police.uk/news/respons ... rrent_news

But the racist and misogynistic attitudes among too many officers have there and reported on for years — even before it had NF and BNP sympathisers in its ranks. When will it be seriously dealt with...?