Petras Narbutas, 31, of Horn Lane, Ealing, west London has been made subject to a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order, prohibiting him repeating his actions.
Today at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court he was convicted of making malicious communications and was conditionally discharged.
The court heard between June 1 and July 21 Petras called 999 a total of 497 times.
Petras did not make any requests for any kind of support, but did insult both exchange operators and operators at the Metropolitan Police Control Centre.
In a number of these calls Petras was racially abusive to the operators.
Due to the number of hate crime offences, Petras was one of the highest repeat hate crime offenders in the Metropolitan Police.
His actions have caused a number of staff to feel personally effected by the calls and the sheer number of calls to the 999 service caused a sever backlog in calls, potentially putting other members of the public at risk.
The Criminal Behaviour Order – commonly known as a 'Crimbo' – will give the courts additional sentencing powers if breached by Narbutas.
PC Pete Trueman, West Areas hate Crime performance officer, said “The Metropolitan Police Service stands strongly against all forms of hate and will not tolerate its staff being abused or harassed, purely for doing their job.”
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