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29 November 2006
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100 police disciplined over e-
A hundred police officers and civilian staff have been disciplined for circulating an e-mail showing a man being decapitated as he falls on railings during a chase.
The American sequence purports to show a black man fleeing police. He attempts to jump from a flyover on to a building, but falls between the two and is decapitated.
Of 400 officers and staff who saw the e-mail, 300 deleted it. The others circulated it and have been disciplined.
Yesterday Hertfordshire police said that they had formally reprimanded eight sergeants and seven supervisors for distributing the e-mail. Another 85 police and civilians were given a formal warning.
The force has set up new systems to monitor the computer traffic among officers and staff.
The embarassment for Hertfordshire comes seven years after the inquiry by Sir William MacPherson into the death of Stephen Lawrence accused the Metropolitan Police of institutional racism. Yesterday Simon Ash, the Deputy Chief Constable of the force, who oversaw the investigation, said: “I am disappointed by the conduct of officers and staff who distributed this inappropriate image that some people may have perceived as being racist.”
Mr Ash said that the e-mails were spotted by a police IT monitoring system. The investigation was overseen by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Alicia Moore, of Hertfordshire Constabulary Black Police Association, said that she felt satisfied that the disciplinary action was appropriate.
However, Keith Jarrett, the chairman of the Black Police Association, said that disciplinary action should have gone further. “I don’t think a robust enough sanction has been taken against the officers concerned, especially the supervisory ones.”
In February officers in the Merseyside force were also disciplined after racist images including the decapitation pictures were circulated. Ten uniformed officers and three civilian staff were disciplined.
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