The former boss of Victoria police’s ethical standards unit used three pseudonyms to post racist, sexist and homophobic comments while trolling people online, an investigation has found.
In a report tabled to the Victorian parliament on Tuesday, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission found former assistant commissioner Brett Guerin used the names Vernon Demerest, Clive Howlett-Jones and Grange Callendar to make hundreds of posts while he was on and off duty from 2016 to 2018.
At least 70 of the posts “could be deemed offensive”, the report found.
Guerin resigned in February 2018 while under investigation by Ibac.
However, Ibac found Guerin’s trolling did not impact on his work, despite the senior officer using information he received as part of his job to inform some of his comments, and posting about matters in which he had a declared conflict of interest or was expected to make a disciplinary ruling. Ibac did not find any evidence that his decision making as…