Metropolitan Police officers shared photos of dead bodies on WhatsApp taken on their personal phones, as one of the accused claimed it was ‘common practice’.
Officers said personal phones were routinely used to capture evidence, including pictures of people who had died, due to the poor photographic quality of standard-issue police equipment.
An internal Scotland Yard inquiry heard confidential images were frequently shared via Whatsapp, with the messaging app being used as a ‘workaround’ to compress files before emailing and uploading them to the Met’s official system.
PC Billy Manning was found to have kept a photo of a deceased elderly man on
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