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Police officer dismissed after football conviction

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A police sergeant who was banned from football matches for "tragedy chanting" has been formally dismissed from his force.

Tyler Coppin, 29, from Colchester, pleaded guilty in court to a public order offence in connection with an incident at the Liverpool v Chelsea game at Anfield in October.

He has now been found to have committed gross misconduct at an Essex Police misconduct hearing.

Essex's Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said: "If officers are responsible for upholding the law, it cannot be right that they break it."

Stuart Woodward/BBC Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, who has short light brown hair. He is wearing a white shirt with blue police lapels and a dark tie. He is sitting in a room with the Essex Police log blurred out on a white wall behind him.
Stuart Woodward/BBC Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, who has short light brown hair.