Former detectives have called on police WhatsApp groups where 'messages beyond the pale' are allowed to be written in plain sight, to be monitored and pleading with officers to be particularly careful about what they say on social media.
However it is not the first time that bereaved families - who have lost loved ones in the worst circumstances imaginable - have been subjected to 'more trauma' at the hands of officers working on the cases. Barnaby Webber's grieving mother has revealed that she felt 'physically sick' after discovering an appalling police WhatsApp group following her son's murder. Pictured: Barnaby
'Police officers often have to pass on the most dreadful of news and in the minutes when they are dealing with it, sometimes they discuss among themselves using black humour. That is how police has always been.'I've met the most homicide families than anyone else in Britain and I know anything said in the moments where police exchange black humour would be very upsetting.'
Officers messaged on WhatsApp to describe how both of the innocent 19-year-olds were 'properly butchered' in a work group chat. Pictured is the Grace O'Malley-Kumar Speaking with regards to the messages about the Nottingham stab victims, the former officer, who asked not to be named, said: I can only say say that such behaviour is appalling.
While both former police officers with decades of experienced called out the appalling nature of such WhatsApp groups, they have stopped short of saying they should be banned altogether. Mr Brennan added: 'I was a police officer for 31 years, dealing with death, whether it was murder or suicide. It really affects everyone involved including the police officers who are often there to help pick up that devastation.
Grace's father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, wrote to Nottinghamshire Chief Constable Kate Meynall to express his 'disgust' at the conduct of her officers, while Barnaby's mother Mrs Webber wrote an open letter to the force this week. 'But I do think it is strange how things work out because publicly it's a wider story now and it's at risk of endemic in this country that, particularly the police and our emergency service responders, it's not gallows humour. They are desensitized and disrespectful.'
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