A misconduct hearing has been told that 47-year-old police constable, Anthony French, sent inappropriate messages to an undercover officer whom he believed to be a 14-year-old boy on 'Grindr', which apparently is a dating app for homosexuals. The South Wales officer, who quit the force before the hearing, was charged with gross misconduct after sending several messages during a three-hour period, and was arrested the next day. French sent suggestive messages to the other officer who was posing as a teenager, asking to see his body, whilst simultaneously accessing a gay pornography website. The hearing found French had breached the bounds of acceptable behaviour, and was guilty of discreditable conduct as well as gross misconduct, and that he would have been sacked if he hadn't already quit. French was banned from any future police work, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided his behaviour did not reach the threshold for criminal charges to be brought against him. More HERE.
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