More Aust cops face racism hearings

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Fifteen more Victorian police officers are set to face hearings over racist and pornographic emails, including one at the centre of a diplomatic row showing the electrocution of an Indian man.

After August hearings into the scandal, four officers were dismissed, one was demoted and five were fined. Yesterday, Victoria Police said a further 15 officers would face hearings this month.

Nine will face hearings today and Friday and six will face hearings next week. Victoria Police has continually denounced the emails as offensive, extreme, violent and intolerable after they were discovered and an investigation launched early this year.

The scandal again made headlines this week with the news that one of the emails in the scandal showed an Indian man being electrocuted. It had been sent with a police officer's message saying this could be a way to "fix" Melbourne's Indian student problem.