Senior Victorian police officer and head of Victoria Police’s ethical standards body, Brett Guerin, resigned after having links to racist comments on social media.

Mr Guerin was exposed by Fairfax Media after they reported the racist YouTube comments made under the same name as a character from the 1970 film Airport.

In a statement released yesterday, the Victorian Police said that Mr Guerin’s resignation was also linked to an ongoing Independent Broad-based Anti Corruption Commission investigation.