At least three police officers in Britain are thrown out of the force
every week for misconduct such as sexual assault, discriminatory
behaviour and rudeness, official figures from the Home Office say.
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total of 172 policemen lost their jobs because of misconduct over the
past 12 months as the number of complaints against officers reached
60,000, the Daily Express reported.
Figures from the Independent
Police Complaints Commission showed that allegations of rudeness,
corruption, assault and malpractice are also being lodged at the rate of
160 per day.
Last year, there were 134 complaints of sexual
assault, 1,476 of discriminatory behaviour, 480 for corruption and
nearly 11,000 for rudeness.
London's Metropolitan Police got rid of 39 officers for not doing their job properly or gross misconduct.
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Derbyshire constabulary threw out 10 officers, the West Midlands force
got rid of nine, while South Wales, Northumbria and Lancashire each
sacked eight officers.
Constable Robert Nicholson was sacked from
Scotland Yard after he was found to be having an inappropriate
relationship with a 14-year-old girl who lived in a care home.
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46-year-old chief inspector was fired from the Metropolitan Police after
being found guilty of boasting of drug-taking and sex acts on a dating
website he used to look for women who wanted sex with a man in uniform.
Sergeant Darren Towers, also an amateur bodybuilder, was sacked from the Northumbria police after he admitted taking steroids.
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58-year-old constable was fired for mishandling emergency calls. He
failed to respond to reports of domestic abuse, rape, break-ins, suicide
threats and accidents.
Five officers from an elite gun-crime
unit were fired after a photograph showed them behaving inappropriately
during a raid on a suspect's home.
Some officers were also charged with taking items from raided homes and selling them on shopping website eBay.
Three British policemen sacked every week
