TWO Bournemouth police officers have been told they will never police again after being put on a list of barred officers. 

An officer has been told he would have been dismissed for sharing sexist, homophobic or inappropriate WhatsApp messages. A colleague of his has also been sacked for sending offensive messages.

A tribunal held at Dorset Police’s headquarters in Winfrith found Inspector Nicholas Mantle, Pc Mark Jordan-Gill and former Pc Paul Perdrisat had committed gross misconduct between 2018 and 2021. 

Pc Michael Lowther and Pc Matthew Young, who also misbehaved, were found to have committed misconduct, with the former previously issued a written warning and the latter previously handed a final written warning. 

Pc Jordan-Gill was dismissed with immediate effect today by a disciplinary panel, which also ruled that former Pc Perdrisat would have also been removed from his job had he not already resigned. 

The pair will be placed on the College of Policing’s list of barred officers, the hearing was told, with a sanction yet to be heard for Inspector Mantle. 

Panel chair James Rickard told the hearing: “The public in our view would not tolerate a police force that continues to accommodate officers who have behaved as we have found to have occurred in this instance. 

“It’s clear the reputational harm caused to Dorset Police and policing nationally was very high, it’s clearly aggravated the health of officers, there is no doubt the reputational harm was extreme.” 

The officers, all part of a Specialist Force Support Group (FSG), were described as “toxic” because of the “bullying environment, according to an officer known as Pc A. 

Pc A said during the tribunal their treatment of him left him considering suicide and described Perdisat as the “alpha male” who told Pc A he was “picking on the weakest link”. 

Pc A said homophobic comments were made in the office, adding: “I was astounded at professional police officers being homophobic.” 

Mark Ley-Morgan, representing the force, told the Winfrith hearing the officers also posted or failed to challenge items posted in a WhatsApp group called “The Real FSG”. 

He said: “Some can be described as sexist, pornographic, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, bullying, offensive and otherwise inappropriate. 

“The officers who posted should not have done so in the first place. 

“They should have been challenged and they should have been stopped. 

“The officers should have left the group and reported the group.” 

Mr Ley-Morgan said the messages were in breach of the force’s social media policy and would discredit the force because “a member of the public would be justifiably appalled” by the images and “by the officers finding them humorous”. 

The officers were accused of making discriminatory comments and putting up an inappropriate calendar – given as a secret Santa gift – as “wall art” in their office. 

  • A previous version of this article reported, in its headline, that a Dorset Police Officer, Mr Jordan-Gill, had been dismissed for “sharing racist WhatsApp messages”. This was inaccurate. Mr Jordan-Gill was dismissed after it was found he had shared “inappropriate and offensive messages”. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.