In 2020, retired Gwent police officer Ricky Jones took his own life. Jones’s family - who he’d subjected to years of abuse - looked through his old iPhone to try to understand more about their husband and father. But it revealed things even they were not prepared for.

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Articles:

• How a dead officer’s iPhone exposes misogyny, corruption and racism in a police force
• Gwent police officers joked about Jimmy Savile and ‘sex pests’ in the force
• My life as a female firearms officer in the misogynistic police boys’ club

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• Hannah Al-Othman, News Reporter, The Sunday Times.

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