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A shocking WhatsApp group of police officers dubbed “Dog Pound” has been revealed, where cops made racist remarks and discussed new “entrenched” colleagues.
At least nine officers from the Botany Bay Local Command in Sydney used the encrypted messaging app to joke about the rape and make sexual remarks about the women.
The panel discussion, originally called “Patrol Fairies 2.0”, was the subject of an Industrial Relations Board hearing this year and led to the sacking of two officers.
In damning messages obtained by the Daily Telegraph, Constable Calvin Dunne, who started the group, wrote “she’s not hot, but not ugly” in July 2017.
Constable Jordan Crotty responded to a message regarding a woman: “So just average. Rootable after a few drinks’
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In damning posts, Constable Calvin Dunne, who started the group, wrote “she’s not hot, but not ugly” in July 2017
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The gendarmes were surprisingly also in the group chat, with a “so fair average” response. Rootable after a few drinks.
When speaking of a senior officer, an officer said the woman was “a bit old” before Dunne replied “it’s not old”. It is a female sexual peak. Yeah, she’s 30, hahaha, she’s a crazy flirt too.
In another series of vile messages, an officer shared a photo of a civilian woman to which a cop replied “she would be worth being charged with rape.”
Constable Jordan Crotty wrote, “100% you could have taken that off. Chick (sic) who posts stuff like that gags for anything ”.
The officer responded by saying he didn’t have her “f ** k” because she was drunk and was a childhood friend.
Crotty responded by saying that she “would always like to”.
A racist message from an anonymous cop read “if I get fired, I pull the native card”.
An officer who was part of the group defended the messages, saying the conversations were simply “assembly room discussions” and “normal discussions”.
Erhan Sevgin, a non-police officer who was wrongly charged in 2017, was also discussed in the group chat.
Crotty told the group that Mr. Sevgin had hit her with his bicycle.
Dunne asked, “Did he ask for his phone and look at it back? To which she replied ‘c ** t wouldn’t dare today.’
Crotty said she charged the man with six offenses, including malicious damage and the use of an offensive weapon to avoid apprehension.
She joked that it was a “massive charge” – a term used to describe the indictment of a person for an extreme number of offenses.
In another series of vile messages, an officer shared a photo of a civilian woman to which a cop replied “she would be worth being charged with rape” (stock image)
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Mr. Sevgin pleaded guilty to all charges and spent seven months in prison.
WhatsApp chat content was handed over to his lawyers, resulting in an appeal and his conviction being overturned.
The group chat came to light in late 2017 when one of the officers involved showed it to his boss, which sparked an investigation from the Occupational Standards Command.
As a result, Dunne and Constable Ben Vizzone, who was part of the focus group, were fired, while Crotty faced internal disciplinary action and was assigned restricted duties.
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