After exposing claims that police officers were posting inappropriate images of deceased women, a former NSW police officer has said she was forced out of her position.

Michelle Carlon, 34, a former senior constable, alleges that her former colleagues engaged in a macabre game by posting dozens of unapproved images of deceased persons on social media platforms.

The 10-year police veteran claims that officers would circulate pictures of deceased women’s genitalia, ‘graded their racks’ (breasts) on Snapchat, and a host of other degrading images.

‘Don’t leave them alone with my body,’ she has now cautioned friends and family if she passes away.

In an interview with Daily Mail Australia, Ms Carlon said: “The way we check bodies is, we do strip them and photograph their privates to check for any signs of sexual assault.”

“This is where cops are most likely alone with a corpse. It scares me to think how my body would be photographed and sent around the NSW Police.”

Photos are still shared even when they are not on Snapchat.

I’ve heard, “Mate look at this chicks v**” before showing a photo of a woman’s privates to each other and laughing, and they “rate their racks”.

One of the less awful snaps I was sent has a caption, “When you’re dead but your dog wants to play fetch.”

“It displayed an image of a small dog perched on a deceased woman’s chest.”

According to Ms. Carlon, among the unsettling photos taken at crime scenes and distributed to coworkers are shots of the dead bodies of infants, the elderly, and women in danger.

Additionally, she asserts that police chiefs have disregarded the accusations—along with numerous others—for years.

In October 2024, NSW Police announced an independent probe of a poisonous culture inside the police in response to an increasing number of complaints.

According to NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb, she has hired Kristen Hilton, a former equal opportunity human rights commissioner from Victoria, to carry it out.

Interviews with former workers who have departed the force in the last five years will start in the coming months.

However, according to several current and former NSW Police officers interviewed by Daily Mail Australia, inappropriate behavior and misconduct are widespread and not much is done about it when it is formally reported.

Many were too afraid to express their opinions in public.

“I stopped complaining about a lot of things as it was making it worse for me and I became a target,” former crime scene investigator Kylie Kemp explained.

“It was morally and ethically wrong, but complaints woefully just get brushed off.”

“I wondered if they have bigger fish to fry or did they just not like me because I complained too much.”

After 11 years of service, Ms. Kemp, 44, retired from the police in 2018.

However, her experience spanning more than ten years of service will not be heard because the evaluation will only be available to officers who left within the last five years.

Ms. Kemp says she had PTSD as a result of the ongoing harassment and bullying, which forced her to resign.

Since then, she has experienced persistent problems, including a brief stint of homelessness.

“I can’t even explain how bad and how horrible some cops were,” she said.

“It was always young male coppers who had no respect for the dead. It’s making me shake now thinking about it because it’s so disgusting.”

She claims there was a perverse infatuation with “gore,” which was “rife and abhorrent,” even though she saw comparable offensive remarks to those made by Ms. Carlon.

Ms. Kemp claims that officers share pictures via Facebook Messenger and text messages, one of which highlights a serious injury to a teen’s body.

“It was always the most gruesome accidents or the most decomposed bodies,” she claimed.

“A young boy died in a boating accident and his injuries were horrific. His photos were shared around like it’s funny.”

“The poor kid and his family did not deserve that disrespect.”

Because of her position, Ms. Kemp was the first person called after the first responders located a crime scene.

“Another job I did, an old man died in social housing and no one knew, so his body has decomposed terribly and he was slumped on the floor,” she said.

“Before I even got there two males constables were standing outside laughing, looking at their phone of the photo they had taken. I hadn’t even been inside yet.”

“I made them delete it and I reported it to their commander and nothing happened. Nothing ever happened. It was just brushed off.”

Ms. Kemp is especially troubled by an old woman who was targeted after being discovered in her bedroom without underwear, and she is aware of officers taking pictures of genitalia to distribute.

She expressed her inability to comprehend the rationale behind allowing cops to use their personal phones while on duty.

“They have radios – so why do they need their phones there at all?” she said.

In a contentious decision issued in October, Commissioner Karen Webb prohibited NSW Police personnel from using WhatsApp, social media, or any messaging app apart from SMS on their work-issued mobile phones.

We used security software to block personal apps and social media on work phones.

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, the police watchdog, made the suggestion as one of several after looking into the actions of a senior officer who was suspected of being intoxicated after a car accident in May.

Some police officers at the time criticized the proposal, claiming that preventing them from using applications would make their jobs more difficult.

One cop stated, “It means we are going to have to get burner phones now and carry two phones.”

The response did not surprise Ms. Carlon, who was medically released in 2023 after pursuing her “childhood dream” and entering the field at the age of 23 in 2013.

“It wasn’t the criminals I needed to watch – it was my colleagues who were cruel bullies,” she said.

“I tried to report it – but no one believed me. The psychologist cleared me to work but they let me go with no explanation.”

“The police force needs to change from the top down. It’s nothing like the loyal brotherhood I thought it would be.”

I just thought, “what if that was me, or my loved ones?” It made me fearful of dying because I don’t want my crime scene photos sent around.

“I don’t want anyone to be able to Snapchat my private parts.”

Ms. Kemp and Ms. Carlon have filed lawsuits against the NSW Police Force.