A hearing was held on March 26, 2026
A former Cambridgeshire Police officer who sent “misogynistic, predatory, sexually degrading and discriminatory” messages would have been struck off had he not already resigned. PC Kyle Carter-Lawrence was found to have breached the standards of professional behaviour at a misconduct hearing held on March 26, 2026.
Mr Carter-Lawrence faced a total of seven allegations made against him including sending messages that implicated him in class A drug use, making inaccurate declarations on his vetting form, failing to challenge another officer’s conduct and language and use of cocaine and other drugs.
One allegation related to the former officer being a member of a WhatsApp group. The messages he sent to the group were “misogynistic, predatory, sexually degrading, discriminatory, and implicated him in class A drug use”.
The hearing heard that he used language which failed to treat people with respect and courtesy and discredited the police service. According to the public outcome of the hearing, this was found to have been “proven on the balance of probabilities”.
In another allegation, he made references to drug taking, use of cocaine and other drugs. The hearing found that this allegation amounted to “gross misconduct”.
The panel heard that Mr Carter-Lawrence engaged in similar messages in a 1-2-1 chat group with another officer. Those messages were found to be of a “derogatory in nature, referenced sexual predatory behaviour and drug taking”. The hearing found this allegation to be proven and amounted to gross misconduct.
The former officer failed to challenge another fellow officer’s conduct and language within the WhatsApp group. He also made inaccurate declarations on his vetting form which amounted to gross misconduct.
In two other claims made against him, he was accused of associating with those involved in criminal behaviour and concerns of sharing police data. The outcome of the allegation on concerns for sharing police data did not meet the threshold of balance of probabilities and therefore it was not proven.
The outcome found that the former officer would have been dismissed if he had not already resigned.
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