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Police will not be prosecuted for WhatsApp remarks on the black actor | Police
The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute three police officers for allegedly racist comments about a black British actor.
Police forces had requested permission from the CPS to charge their own officers for the incident.
Last year a Cambridgeshire gendarmerie officer was suspended and two others were assigned restricted duties after allegedly racist remarks were exchanged on a WhatsApp group under an image of British actor and writer Kayode Ewumi .
During the exchange on the social media app, one of the officers posted a meme of Ewumi, 27, which went viral in 2017. The image shows Ewumi as her character Reece Simpson, also known as the name of Roll Safe, in the BBC Three comedy #HoodDocumentary, where he taps his finger to the side of his head after thinking about something. Below the picture of Ewumi, a second policeman wrote the word monkey and then posted a picture of a baby monkey hanging from a tree branch. A third officer wrote lol under the monkey image.
The police team from the WhatsApp group at the time the messages were exchanged was predominantly white. But an ethnic minority officer on the team lodged a formal complaint after receiving the messages on his family’s cell phone, where they were seen by his three children.
The incident was referred to the Independent Bureau for Police Conduct, which asked the Professional Standards Department of the Police Force to investigate. Initially, a serious misconduct procedure against the agents was considered, but this procedure has now been reduced to a fault and the suspension of one of the three agents has been lifted.
Attiq Malik of Liberty Law Solicitors, who represents the officer who said he believed the exchanges were racist and filed a complaint, said Cambridgeshire Police’s update on the case was disappointing.
Even though the CPS made the decision not to prosecute, it does not automatically follow that serious misconduct proceedings against police officers should be turned into misconduct proceedings, Malik said.
A spokesperson for the Cambridgeshire Gendarmerie said: In early May 2020, a complaint was filed about an allegedly racist exchange on WhatsApp between agents in Peterborough. As a result of this complaint, a referral was made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct which led an investigation which should be conducted by our Professional Standards Department. Two officers were assigned restricted duties and a third suspended while a full investigation took place. A case has been submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service for authorization to accuse the malicious communications agents.
This case was reviewed by a senior prosecutor and hate crimes expert who, with the full group conversation history available, concluded that no further action should be taken. In light of this decision, the serious misconduct procedure was reduced to misconduct and the suspension was lifted.
The behavior and practice of the officers involved in this matter have been assessed by the Professional Standards Department as in need of improvement and work is ongoing.
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