Insider say its use has 'dropped off a cliff' since revelations about a 'racist' WhatsApp group last month
Last month GMP carried out a software update which removed the 'personal side' of police issue phones, so officers can no longer download apps such as WhatsApp as they had done previously.
One experienced officer said: "Even though they weren't supposed to, shifts were using WhatsApp on jobs, for instance missing people or suspects they were trying to find because it was just way quicker to share pictures that way than using our own technology. Cops tend to find a way and that was it."
GMP insist the crackdown had started long before revelations about 'The Dispensables' WhatsApp group. Some of the officers who used it have now left the force in disgrace. Racist and homophobic language was used on the group chat which was said to be dominated by another officer, PC Aaron Jones, who left the force in disgrace last year.
PC Aaron Jones was banned from policing following a disciplinary hearing in December last year. Last month's disciplinary panel concluded PC Kelly failed to challenge her then boyfriend, now her husband, when he made the racist remark.
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