Met officer given final warning after joking about setting fire to woman’s house Three Metropolitan Police officers who made light of a serious sexual assault allegation and made inappropriate and offensive jokes in a WhatsApp group chat have been given final written warnings.
Pcs Alexander Higgs and Charlie Cano and a third officer, known only as Officer A, were found to have committed gross misconduct in the messages on the social media platform where they made “discriminatory and derogatory comments” about members of the public, women, Muslims and people from other minority groups.
All three officers were found to have engaged in a derogatory joke about getting access to the full police national computer (PNC) if they “sucked off” an inspector and made light of a serious allegation of sexual assault by another serving police officer.
In a report following a misconduct hearing published on Monday, the trio were criticised for the “inappropriate, stupid, childish, boyish” language used in their messages, sent between February and May 2020.
It was accepted that there was no plan to set fire to the house, but the report said it portrayed a “wholly unacceptable” attitude to victims of crime.
