Five cops suspended ‘for sending and receiving offensive WhatsApp texts’

FIVE cops have been suspended for allegedly sending and receiving offensive WhatsApp texts.

Colleagues reported the sergeant and four PCs.

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They are attached to a crack anti-crime team in Bournemouth and were suspended in July.

A source said: “It was a private group. The officers used their own phones but there were messages about work jobs, which is forbidden.”

The sergeant, an acting inspector, is being probed for lack of supervision.

Sources say one officer kept a wooden African tribal figure on a drinks bar at his home.

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The cop denies it was racist.

The Dorset force is investigating after the case was referred back to it by the police watchdog.

Officers are said to be “running scared” amid a national crackdown on police WhatsApp groups.