A former police commissioner's nephew who admitted sharing pornography while joking around with his mates says he shouldn't have been kicked out of the force.

Alexander James Cox, 31, was stood down as a police constable in March after sharing explicit images, video and audio with his colleagues over an 18-month period in 2019 and 2020.

Acquitted of recording and distributing intimate images without consent in April 2024, Cox was still let go from the NSW Police Force because of the pornographic content he shared.

His lawyer Paul McGirr has challenged Cox's dismissal in court saying he merely made some jokes in bad taste in a private setting.

"If the threshold for dismissing a police officer is for cracking bad or distasteful jokes, the State of NSW would have grave difficulties in sta

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