Met Police Officer Dismissed After Misconduct Panel Rules He Was Unfit To Police Muslim Communities

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has lost his job following a formal misconduct hearing that concluded he could not be trusted to carry out duties involving discrimination or hate crime investigations impartially.
PC Brendan Jones was dismissed without notice on 26 February 2026, after a panel determined that comments he made to colleagues — in which he reportedly suggested that “the Muslims were taking over” — amounted to a serious breach of professional standards.
The remarks came during a workplace conversation about a television documentary on doomsday preppers, during which PC Jones allegedly told fellow officers that the end of civilisation had already begun, and that people were “blind to it”. He denied making the comment and told the panel he believed he had been targeted because of his age and ethnicity.
The case took on additional complexity when it emerged that PC Jones had developed what Commander Andy Brittain described as a disproportionate grudge against Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, stemming from a ULEZ penalty charge. That resentment had reportedly led him to conduct his own research into the Mayor, during which he referenced an article written by former Prime Minister David Cameron in the Daily Telegraph in 2016. Cameron had since apologised for a claim in that piece linking Khan to an imam in Tooting who had expressed support for Islamic State.
Commander Brittain, addressing the panel’s findings, said Muslim Londoners in particular would be “appalled” to learn that an officer held such views, and that PC Jones’s continued service would undermine public confidence in the force — not only within Muslim communities, but across all groups who might expect him to handle hate crime or discrimination matters fairly.
The dismissal forms part of broader ongoing scrutiny of conduct and culture within the Metropolitan Police.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​