Five police officers have been dismissed after secretly photographing members of the public and posting the pictures online with "disrespectful and in one case predatory" comments.
The five police constables, attached to Camden borough, were sacked from the force without notice for "discreditable conduct" following a misconduct hearing that ended today, Scotland Yard said.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Fiona Taylor, of the Directorate of Professionalism, said: “This was disgraceful behaviour from a small group of officers and it is only right and just that they have been dismissed from the Met.
“We expect the very highest standards of behaviour from our officers and when they fall short of those standards they can expect to be held to account.”
A Scotland Yard misconduct board, held in private, was told that while on duty the officers shared covertly-taken images of members of the public and colleagues on social media.
"They shared the pictures with accompanying comments which the board found were disrespectful and in one case predatory," said a Scotland Yard spokeswoman.
A sixth PC was issued with a final written warning and a now-resigned seventh - against whom similar accusations were made - was arrested in February but later released with no further criminal action taken, the force said.
The Met this evening declined to name the officers involved and said it had nothing further to add.
