Five more police officers are being probed after allegedly joking about Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey in a WhatsApp group.
Eight officers based in Bexleyheath are already under investigation over messages sent about the 19-year-old, along with other racist and sexist jokes.
The latest group, based in Hackney, east London, have been put on restricted duties, The Sun reports.
The Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards is investigating whether there is evidence of discrimination “relating to race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief and disability”.
Harvey, 19, who is Price’s son with former footballer Dwight Yorke, suffers from partial blindness, Prader-Willi syndrome, autism and learning and behavioural difficulties as a result of a rare genetic disorder.
Ms Price, a former glamour model, previously posted a video her son saying "I don't like the police being horrible to Harvey” on Instagram.
She added a comment calling for "the eight police officers from a south London police station" to be "sacked and named and shamed".
The revelation comes not long after two officers were charged with misconduct after sharing pictures of the bodies of two murder victims, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.
In April Pc Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Pc Jamie Lewis, 32, were charged after an investigation into pictures which were taken and circulated of sisters Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46.
The two women were stabbed to death at Fryent Country Park in Wembley in the early hours of June 6 last year by Blackheath teen Danyal Hussein.
The pictures were taken by officers guarding the scene.
Twelve officers are also being probed by the police watchdog over allegations they failed to investigate incidents of indecent exposure linked to Sarah Everard’s killer, ex-policeman Wayne Couzens.
Katie Price has campaigned for online abuse to be made a specific offence following social media attacks against her son.
Price told the Commons Petitions Committee in 2018 that a line should be drawn between “banter” and criminal abuse.
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