{"id":277781,"date":"2022-11-09T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=277781"},"modified":"2022-11-19T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T11:04:26","slug":"police-chief-tells-of-shame-and-deep-regret-over-rogue-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/police-chief-tells-of-shame-and-deep-regret-over-rogue-officers","title":{"rendered":"Police chief tells of &#8216;shame and deep regret&#8217; over rogue officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most senior police officers in Britain said he has experienced some of his darkest moments in policing in the past year as he expressed deep regret that rogue officers were not kicked out of the service sooner.Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs&#8217; Council, told delegates at the body&#8217;s joint annual summit that he had &#8220;repeatedly felt deep shame&#8221; at the actions of some officers.Policing has been shaken by a series of scandals involving officers&#8217; conduct, including the murder of Sarah Everard and disturbing messages shared on WhatsApp groups.Mr Hewitt told the event in Westminster that he was proud of how the service dealt with Covid and major events such as the death of the Queen.I have repeatedly felt shame at hearing the actions of some individuals in our service and deep regret that we didn&#8217;t get these people out soonerBut he said that in the past year: &#8220;I have also experienced some of my darkest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most senior police officers in Britain said he has experienced some of his darkest moments in policing in the past year as he expressed deep regret that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}