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Police officers sacked for saying teenager 'should be raped'

#1  Postby Teague » Nov 10, 2017 10:25 am

Police officers sacked for saying at-risk teenager 'should be raped'

Two police officers have been dismissed from the Avon and Somerset force after they said they hoped that a vulnerable teenager “got raped”.


PCs Samuel Dexter, 36, and Hannah Mayo, 32, made the comments in a conversation that they did not realise was being recorded on the 14-year-old’s mother’s answering machine.

Both admitted to gross misconduct in relation to the incident, which took place in September. After a misconduct hearing at the force headquarters, in Portishead, near Bristol, on Tuesday, Andy Marsh, the chief constable, sacked them without notice, saying that the public would be “outraged” by their comments.

The officers had driven over to the family’s house after receiving a phone call from the 14-year-old’s mother. It was Dexter’s second time at the house that evening after the boy’s mother had earlier reported him missing.

On that occasion, Dexter had driven round looking for the boy, who had ADHD and was a cannabis user, and eventually returned him home safely.

When he was called back to the house later, accompanied by Mayo, Dexter tried to phone the boy’s mother on the way over but obtained no answer. He then vented his frustration to his fellow officer.

“I have no interest whatsoever,” he said. “He [the boy] seemed to be relishing in the fact that I had been driving around aimlessly looking for him.
“I felt like saying to him, ‘Whatever, you little s**t, I don’t give a f**k. I hope you get raped.’”

Mayo responded: “Yes, and b**t raped.”

The officers were heard laughing on the two-minute recording, which ended as they pulled up outside the boy’s house. Unbeknown to the officers, the conversation had been recorded on the mother’s answering machine.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/po ... &ocid=iehp


Sacked for gross misconduct - this is what happens to our officers when they step out of line.
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#2  Postby proudfootz » Nov 10, 2017 11:13 am

Best to sack officers when they reveal these anti-social attitudes before they get too many opportunities to commit too many anti-social acts.
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#3  Postby Teague » Nov 10, 2017 11:19 am

proudfootz wrote:Best to sack officers when they reveal these anti-social attitudes before they get too many opportunities to commit too many anti-social acts.


Well it sends a message doesn't it. In the US the message there is you can murder civilians and get away with it.
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#4  Postby proudfootz » Nov 10, 2017 11:25 am

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#5  Postby CarlPierce » Nov 10, 2017 2:56 pm

I actually feel sorry for the officers of course saying something outrageous isn't right but I'm pretty sure they didn't actually mean it. I think a warning would be more just. I wonder what the kid said to them.
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#6  Postby NineBerry » Nov 10, 2017 3:09 pm

Sacked for gross incompetence in handling a telephone.
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#7  Postby Oldskeptic » Nov 11, 2017 2:39 am

Teague wrote:
Police officers sacked for saying at-risk teenager 'should be raped'

Two police officers have been dismissed from the Avon and Somerset force after they said they hoped that a vulnerable teenager “got raped”.


PCs Samuel Dexter, 36, and Hannah Mayo, 32, made the comments in a conversation that they did not realise was being recorded on the 14-year-old’s mother’s answering machine.

Both admitted to gross misconduct in relation to the incident, which took place in September. After a misconduct hearing at the force headquarters, in Portishead, near Bristol, on Tuesday, Andy Marsh, the chief constable, sacked them without notice, saying that the public would be “outraged” by their comments.

The officers had driven over to the family’s house after receiving a phone call from the 14-year-old’s mother. It was Dexter’s second time at the house that evening after the boy’s mother had earlier reported him missing.

On that occasion, Dexter had driven round looking for the boy, who had ADHD and was a cannabis user, and eventually returned him home safely.

When he was called back to the house later, accompanied by Mayo, Dexter tried to phone the boy’s mother on the way over but obtained no answer. He then vented his frustration to his fellow officer.

“I have no interest whatsoever,” he said. “He [the boy] seemed to be relishing in the fact that I had been driving around aimlessly looking for him.
“I felt like saying to him, ‘Whatever, you little s**t, I don’t give a f**k. I hope you get raped.’”

Mayo responded: “Yes, and b**t raped.”

The officers were heard laughing on the two-minute recording, which ended as they pulled up outside the boy’s house. Unbeknown to the officers, the conversation had been recorded on the mother’s answering machine.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/po ... &ocid=iehp


Sacked for gross misconduct - this is what happens to our officers when they step out of line.


That is truly a conformation of British exceptionalism. I mean, really, the British fire police officers every time one of them says something offensive and in the US we never fire any officers for anything.
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#8  Postby Willie71 » Nov 11, 2017 2:21 pm

Oldskeptic wrote:
Teague wrote:
Police officers sacked for saying at-risk teenager 'should be raped'

Two police officers have been dismissed from the Avon and Somerset force after they said they hoped that a vulnerable teenager “got raped”.


PCs Samuel Dexter, 36, and Hannah Mayo, 32, made the comments in a conversation that they did not realise was being recorded on the 14-year-old’s mother’s answering machine.

Both admitted to gross misconduct in relation to the incident, which took place in September. After a misconduct hearing at the force headquarters, in Portishead, near Bristol, on Tuesday, Andy Marsh, the chief constable, sacked them without notice, saying that the public would be “outraged” by their comments.

The officers had driven over to the family’s house after receiving a phone call from the 14-year-old’s mother. It was Dexter’s second time at the house that evening after the boy’s mother had earlier reported him missing.

On that occasion, Dexter had driven round looking for the boy, who had ADHD and was a cannabis user, and eventually returned him home safely.

When he was called back to the house later, accompanied by Mayo, Dexter tried to phone the boy’s mother on the way over but obtained no answer. He then vented his frustration to his fellow officer.

“I have no interest whatsoever,” he said. “He [the boy] seemed to be relishing in the fact that I had been driving around aimlessly looking for him.
“I felt like saying to him, ‘Whatever, you little s**t, I don’t give a f**k. I hope you get raped.’”

Mayo responded: “Yes, and b**t raped.”

The officers were heard laughing on the two-minute recording, which ended as they pulled up outside the boy’s house. Unbeknown to the officers, the conversation had been recorded on the mother’s answering machine.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/po ... &ocid=iehp


Sacked for gross misconduct - this is what happens to our officers when they step out of line.


That is truly a conformation of British exceptionalism. I mean, really, the British fire police officers every time one of them says something offensive and in the US we never fire any officers for anything.


Please tell us what the term American exceptionalism is, and where it comes from before slurring other nations with bizarre attacks. I’m pretty sure you don’t know where this comes from and think it’s made up by far leftists or something.
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#9  Postby Teague » Nov 13, 2017 4:25 pm

Willie71 wrote:
Oldskeptic wrote:
Teague wrote:
Police officers sacked for saying at-risk teenager 'should be raped'

Two police officers have been dismissed from the Avon and Somerset force after they said they hoped that a vulnerable teenager “got raped”.


PCs Samuel Dexter, 36, and Hannah Mayo, 32, made the comments in a conversation that they did not realise was being recorded on the 14-year-old’s mother’s answering machine.

Both admitted to gross misconduct in relation to the incident, which took place in September. After a misconduct hearing at the force headquarters, in Portishead, near Bristol, on Tuesday, Andy Marsh, the chief constable, sacked them without notice, saying that the public would be “outraged” by their comments.

The officers had driven over to the family’s house after receiving a phone call from the 14-year-old’s mother. It was Dexter’s second time at the house that evening after the boy’s mother had earlier reported him missing.

On that occasion, Dexter had driven round looking for the boy, who had ADHD and was a cannabis user, and eventually returned him home safely.

When he was called back to the house later, accompanied by Mayo, Dexter tried to phone the boy’s mother on the way over but obtained no answer. He then vented his frustration to his fellow officer.

“I have no interest whatsoever,” he said. “He [the boy] seemed to be relishing in the fact that I had been driving around aimlessly looking for him.
“I felt like saying to him, ‘Whatever, you little s**t, I don’t give a f**k. I hope you get raped.’”

Mayo responded: “Yes, and b**t raped.”

The officers were heard laughing on the two-minute recording, which ended as they pulled up outside the boy’s house. Unbeknown to the officers, the conversation had been recorded on the mother’s answering machine.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/po ... &ocid=iehp


Sacked for gross misconduct - this is what happens to our officers when they step out of line.


That is truly a conformation of British exceptionalism. I mean, really, the British fire police officers every time one of them says something offensive and in the US we never fire any officers for anything.


Please tell us what the term American exceptionalism is, and where it comes from before slurring other nations with bizarre attacks. I’m pretty sure you don’t know where this comes from and think it’s made up by far leftists or something.


Oh so no answer then! LMAO
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#10  Postby proudfootz » Nov 14, 2017 12:42 am

FFS - who would rush in to defend cops who 'hope' citizens will be raped?
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#11  Postby Agi Hammerthief » Nov 14, 2017 7:57 pm

proudfootz wrote:FFS - who would rush in to defend cops who 'hope' citizens will be raped?

Roy Moore?
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#12  Postby CdesignProponentsist » Nov 14, 2017 8:46 pm

CarlPierce wrote:I actually feel sorry for the officers of course saying something outrageous isn't right but I'm pretty sure they didn't actually mean it. I think a warning would be more just. I wonder what the kid said to them.


Professionalism is so important especially in positions of authority over citizenry. In exchange for the power we give them over us we trust them to be professional and fair and have our best interests at heart. When they break that trust they need to go, if for any reason, to protect the integrity of the rest of the police force and to maintain that trust. Police officers should be the best of society.

When that trust breaks down, it becomes a war of us vs them which serves no one.
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#13  Postby The Serpent » Nov 17, 2017 1:46 am

I have long been of the view that wanting to become a copper should immediately rule someone out of consideration for the job.
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#14  Postby proudfootz » Nov 17, 2017 11:34 am

The Serpent wrote:I have long been of the view that wanting to become a copper should immediately rule someone out of consideration for the job.


:lol:

Much like politicians! :thumbup:
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