{"id":245917,"date":"2025-10-23T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:14:07","slug":"met-officer-sacked-for-gross-misconduct-after-bbc-panorama-charing-cross-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245917\/","title":{"rendered":"Met officer sacked for gross misconduct after BBC Panorama Charing Cross investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct relating to his time working at London&#8217;s Charing Cross police station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">PC Philip Neilson is the first of 10 officers to face a hearing as part of the Met&#8217;s accelerated misconduct proceedings over footage recorded during an undercover BBC Panorama investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He was recorded by the BBC using derogatory and violent language about suspects who belong to ethnic and religious minorities while serving as a constable in the Central West Command Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He used &#8220;highly racist and discriminatory remarks&#8221; about different ethnic groups, the hearing found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct relating to his time working at London&#8217;s Charing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-245917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}