{"id":440805,"date":"2022-12-09T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=440805"},"modified":"2022-12-09T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:42:39","slug":"two-pcs-sacked-for-sharing-offensive-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/two-pcs-sacked-for-sharing-offensive-messages","title":{"rendered":"Two PCs sacked for sharing offensive messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Met police officer Joel Borders was sentenced to three months in prison for sharing the messages. Photograph: Kirsty O&#8217;Connor\/PA Two serving police officers have been sacked, and four former officers have been told they would have been sacked, for sharing racist, homophobic and misogynist messages in a WhatsApp group. A disciplinary panel made dismissals orders against PC Gary Bailey from the Metropolitan police and PC Matthew Forster from the Civil Nuclear constabulary. Dismissal orders were also made against the former Met PCs Joel Borders, Jonathon Cobban, and William Neville, and a former Norfolk constabulary, PC Daniel Comfort. Bailey and Forster were dismissed without notice and the panel ruled that the four former officers would have been dismissed had they still been serving. Last month, Borders and Cobban were sentenced to three months in prison for sharing the offensive messages. In an exchange on 5 April 2019, Borders wrote: &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to get on guns so I can shoot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four former officers also told they would have been dismissed for racist and misogynist WhatsApp content<\/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-440805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440805","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=440805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}