A Metropolitan Police officer who said he “couldn’t wait” to taser homeless people has been sacked from the force.

Pc Lloyd Hunter was filmed during an undercover BBC investigation saying tasering people was “just so much fun” and that he wanted to “get rid of” homeless people, a police misconduct hearing was told.

The covert filming at Charing Cross police station took place while Pc Hunter, aged 23 at the time, was drinking with undercover journalist Rory Bibb in Earl’s Court in November 2024.

Pc Hunter, from Cumbria, was not featured in the programme, aired in October 2025, but was caught after the BBC shared unaired footage with the Independent Office for Police Conduct, the hearing heard on Wednesday.

The hour-long programme showed officers calling for immigrants to be shot, boasting about excessive use of force and joking about rape and sexual assault.

After drinking two pints Pc Hunter, who had recently completed his taser training, told the reporter “I cannot wait to do it, I love it” and when asked who he would taser first replied “probably a homeless man”.

He said he would like to arrest all the homeless people in Oxford Street each week, giving them various orders and notices which would lead to them all going to prison.

He said: “I think we should get rid of them, we should just bin them off, I hate them.”

At the accelerated misconduct hearing in Sutton, south London, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Carl Galvin ruled that the behaviour amounted to gross misconduct and dismissed Pc Hunter from the force without notice – barring him from re-entering the profession.

Stephen Morley, making the case against Mr Hunter, said he should have been setting a very high standard and “failed dismally” with his “vile comments”.

He said the comments would “horrify” members of the public, particularly vulnerable homeless people.

Giving evidence at the hearing, Pc Hunter apologised for his comments, calling them “abhorrent”.

He said it felt like an “avalanche hitting” when he was suspended, adding: “I always wanted to be a police officer.”

He said the comments were “flippant remarks from an idiotic 23-year-old who just wanted to make friends with someone”.

He said he never used his taser in his 21 months as a police officer and that since returning to Cumbria he has sought to educate himself by volunteering with the Samaritans to help the homeless.

Luke Ponte, KC, representing the officer, asked who in the room had not, in their early 20s, “said anything in the pub that in the cold light of day they realise they should not have said”.

He said the comments showed “immaturity rather than bigotry” and that Pc Hunter had a “miserable time” due to the culture at Charing Cross.

Arguing that Pc Hunter should not be dismissed from the force, Mr Ponte said it was unusual in misconduct cases for the behaviour have “to some degree been provoked by the actions of an undercover reporter”.

Mr Galvin acknowledged that Pc Hunter had not responded to many of the inflammatory comments made by the BBC reporter and at the start of the conversation has said he would not want to use a taser.

However, he said the comments lacked the “self-control, tolerance, respect and courtesy required of officers” and revealed “derogatory views”.

Mr Hunter is the 13th officer to be dismissed following the investigation.

Since the programme 12 Met Police officers and one Gloucestershire officer have been dismissed or barred from the profession.

Nine officers continue to be investigated by the police watchdog in relation to the BBC programme, including three criminal investigations.

Another officer is due to face a misconduct hearing on September 15.

IOPC director of engagement Amanda Rowe said: “Regardless of whether these comments were made on or off-duty, they are completely unacceptable and undermine the public’s confidence in police officers.

“We continue to work hard to ensure that officers whose behaviour falls far below what the public deserve and expect are held to account and swift action is taken, to ensure they are removed from policing.”

The programme followed an investigation by the IOPC which in 2022 revealed evidence of misogyny, homophobia and sexual harassment at the police station, including officers joking about rape.