Constable sacked for viewing 92 police photos of sex workers – then contacting pimp

A police officer has been sacked after searching through 92 photographs of sex workers on his force's record system – then messaging a pimp days later to set up a meeting with a sex worker. Police officers are barred from engaging the services of sex workers because they are classed as a "vulnerable group".PC Dan Anghelina was found guilty of gross misconduct after he browsed police photos of sex workers for 50 minutes during a night shift.Days after these unauthorised searches, the constable reached out to a "sex work facilitator" – commonly called pimps – to enquire about setting up an encounter with a sex worker. PC Anghelina claimed that he was looking at the images because he was looking for "Eastern European organised crime connections".PC Anghelina was also found guilty of a separat