Chiswick PC Sacked for Making Discriminatory Remarks
Brendan Jones had served on the local neighbourhood policing team
Another officer on patrol in Chiswick Riverside ward. Picture: Met Police
A Metropolitan Police officer who served on a neighbourhood policing team in Chiswick has been dismissed after a disciplinary panel found he made a discriminatory remark while on duty.
PC Brendan Jones, who was attached to the West Area Basic Command Unit and had been a member of the Chiswick Riverside Safer Neighbourhoods Team, was sacked following a gross misconduct hearing that concluded on Thursday, 19 February.
The hearing found that he made a discriminatory comment in the presence of another officer. A separate allegation that he made a racist remark to his police trainer was found not proven.
Chief Superintendent Sean Lynch, who oversees policing in west London, said the officer’s conduct fell “well below that expected of a serving officer”.
“There is no place for discriminatory views in the Met or in policing,” he said. “We are committed to rooting out officers who do not meet our values or the standards Londoners rightly expect.”
The panel concluded that PC Jones had breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour in relation to Equality and Diversity and Discreditable Conduct. The misconduct was deemed gross misconduct and serious enough to justify immediate dismissal.
As a result, he will now be placed on the barred list maintained by the College of Policing, preventing him from working in policing or related oversight bodies in the future.
Allegations dated back to incidents in 2024. It was alleged that in early May of that year PC Jones made a number of racially offensive comments with racial connotations in front of colleagues. In a separate incident in September 2024, he was said to have told his tutor that he felt he was being “targeted as a white man” and that he had “no country to go back to.” That latter allegation was not proven at the hearing.
During his time with the Chiswick Riverside Safer Neighbourhoods Team, PC Jones was part of the unit responsible for neighbourhood patrols, responding to local concerns, and working closely with residents, businesses and community groups. Safer Neighbourhoods officers typically attend ward panels, support crime prevention initiatives, engage with schools and community organisations, and provide reassurance patrols aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour and acquisitive crime.
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