A police officer has quit after he accidentally recorded himself hurling ‘appalling’ racist abuse at a black person on TV.
PC James Ennis sent the voice note to another police officer on WhatsApp who raised the alarm.
Merseyside Police’s standards department launched misconduct proceedings, but Ennis quit before he appeared in front of a disciplinary panel.
The proceedings went ahead, however, and concluded he would have been sacked for gross misconduct had he remained in the police.
He has now been placed on the College of Policing barred list, preventing him from holding any policing job in the UK.