British police chief inspector Mark Brew, 47, has been fired after he was caught using a work phone to download pornography.
Brew, who had under his command more than 100 officers on Merseyside’s Matrix anti-gun unit, admitted to using his police-issued phone to watch porn and exchange messages with two women colleagues.
“We can confirm that a misconduct hearing took place last week for a serving police officer. Following this hearing, the officer, a chief inspector, was dismissed with immediate effect for gross misconduct,” a Merseyside Police Spokesperson told the Daily Mail.
Brew also allegedly left a junior officer in charge of a conference while he met up with a married lover, who confessed to the charge.
On top of it all, Brew was accused of using the police force as a personal taxi service, ordering a junior officer to escort him home to Liverpool from a conference in London.
Merseyside Police faced criticism in 2011, when five of its officers were sacked for "behaving inappropriately" after taking unprofessional photos in a house they should have been searching.
By Gukby Sim
Intern Reporter
(simgukby@heraldcorp.com)
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경찰서에서 야동보던 경찰서장 짤려
영국 머지사이드 경찰서장 마크 브루(Mark Brew)는 업무용 전화기를 이용하여 포르노를 다운받고 여성 동료 두 명과 접촉한 것이 발각돼 해임됐다고 데일리메일 신문이 지난 월요일 보도했다.
머지사이드 경찰서 대변인은 “경찰서장은 심각한 위법 행위로 인해 즉각 해임됐다”고 밝혔다.
브루는 또한 회의 및 주요 업무를 부하에게 맡긴 채 불륜관계인 유부녀를 만난 적이 있다고 알려졌다.
이번 사건으로 열린 징계 청문회에서는 브루가 하급 경찰관에게 운전을 시켜 런던에서 리버풀까지 경찰차를 통해 이동한 적이 있다는 사실 또한 전해졌다.
2011년 8월에는 머지사이드 경찰 5명이 주택 수색 중에 장난스러운 사진을 찍은 이유로 단체 퇴출 당한 바 있다.
