Five policemen exposed in a BBC documentary on racism within the ranks have resigned and three others have been suspended, police in Britain have said.
Three officers from Greater Manchester resigned today after initially being suspended and one resigned from Cheshire.
In North Wales, PC Robert Pulling stood down after an undercover reporter filmed him apparently saying Adolf Hitler had the "right idea" but the wrong methods.
"I felt physically sick as I watched," Mr Clive Wolfendale, Acting Deputy Constable of North Wales Police, told a news conference. "Pulling has shamed his colleagues, his uniform and the service."
North Wales Police said it had accepted Pulling's resignation and had suspended another officer. Greater Manchester Police said three officers had resigned and another two were still suspended.
The documentary, secretly filmed by a BBC reporter who enlisted in the police, showed one trainee wearing a Ku Klux Klan-style hood and threatening to harass a British Asian recruit.
Police chiefs have fought to win back public trust after an inquiry branded London police "institutionally racist" over their failed investigation into the 1993 murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence.
British prime minister Mr Tony Blair said at the time that the report highlighted a problem across British society.
Today the government repeated its commitment to root out racism in all forces.
"We are shocked and appalled by the racist views shown in this programme," a Home Office spokesman said. "All allegations of racism are taken extremely seriously."