Mr Virdi was sacked in 2000 after being wrongly accused of sending racist hate mail to black and Asian colleagues.

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Virdi admitted he could not explain how the letters had been produced by a user at Hanwell Police Station using his own secret password.

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Technology offers a powerful interaction between fiction and reality where social problems are concerned, said Adipat Virdi, transmedia producer at Transmediology.com , who attended TEDx in Rome.

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Virdi is working on an outstanding innovative project: use of transmedia technologies to eradicate Honour-Based crimes (over 17, 000 reported cases of Honour Crimes in 2008 in Great Britain, he said).

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Det Sgt Gurpal Virdi, 53, who is retiring after 30 years, said not enough was being done to stamp it out and called for police chiefs to offer more support to victims.

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