'Banter' and hate speak: inside Operation Hotton

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'Banter' and hate speak: inside Operation Hotton

Police Oracle talks to the IOPC investigator who led a major inquiry into a 'toxic' culture at a London police station.

Date - 2nd February 2022
By - Gary Mason

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There may be officers who have yet to be persuaded that some of the stuff to emerge from the IOPC’s long running inquiry into what went on at Charing Cross Police Station was something far worse than a type of extremely off-colour banter...

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