'We have dismissed more people in the first half of this year than we did in the entirety of last year.'
The PSNI is investigating 130 cases of alleged gross misconduct among its own staff and officers and has dismissed 11 officers this year already.Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton also revealed the PSNI has "dismissed more people in the first half of this year than we did in the entirety of last year."It follows allegations that PSNI officers were involved in sharing images of a suicide victims body online.
"Sometimes it's easy to say this is just one or two people and generally it is, but I think we can't say that anymore," he said. "We have 13 panels at which people can be dismissed, although they have a range of sanctions, planned"We have almost 130 cases of gross misconduct that we are investigating."
"Because of the vagaries of technology, people do rely on it for rostering, and sort of finding groups of people because we haven't had alternative technology up until now. However, his deputy acknowledged that the use of an internal messaging service was not an answer to the broader problem."It's almost impossible for us to regulate or police what officers are doing when they're not on duty and what they're talking about as well.
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