Metropolitan Police officers routinely used personal mobile phones to capture evidence, including images of dead people, a misconduct hearing has revealed. An internal Scotland Yard inquiry heard officers defended the practice, citing the poor photographic quality of standard issue police equipment. Investigators were told officers frequently shared these sensitive images via WhatsApp as a 'workaround' to compress files before uploading them to the Met's official system. Pc Billy Manning was found to have kept a photograph of an elderly man who had died on his personal device after an investigation. He later showed colleagues 'a bad one' during a training session, leaving fellow officers 'uncomfortable'. Manning's arrest and the subsequent investigation exposed significant confusion, even within the Met’s senior leadership, regarding the appropriate use of personal phones for police duties.…