METROPOLITAN POLICE SACKS OFFICER OVER SOCIAL MEDIA BREACHES

The Metropolitan Police has dismissed Pc Idominik Efeotor after an accelerated misconduct hearing, the force said. He served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command. He was sacked without notice on Monday. A misconduct panel found he had repeatedly breached social media rules by identifying himself as a serving officer while posting podcast and social media content between 2024 and 2026. The force said he continued despite repeated warnings. He has also been barred from working in policing.

In a TikTok video posted in 2024, he described a senior colleague as a "wasteman". In other recordings, he alleged "corruption" and "racism" within the force, and said there was "discrimination across the board" in its Directorate of Professional Standards. The Met said the material included "offensive, insulting and derogatory language" about police staff, but did not specify which posts were considered at the hearing. Scotland Yard said he also published material that could have identified an officer covered by an anonymity direction. He had registered his podcast as a business interest, but permission for it was later withdrawn.

The panel found that his conduct breached professional standards covering discreditable conduct, orders and instructions, authority and respect, and courtesy and confidentiality. Commander Adam Slonecki said Mr Efeotor had breached social media standards "on many occasions and despite repeated warnings". He said such behaviour undermines public confidence in the Met and has "a harmful and lasting impact" on those he criticised and on colleagues. Slonecki said there was "no place in policing for anyone whose values are so far removed from what we would expect" and that his dismissal was the right outcome.