Around 4 or 5 years ago the Met came up with a scheme whereby new recruits (who were of a black or minority ethnic background) would be afforded guidance and on-tap assistance throughout their 2 year probation.
There would be a tutor assigned throughout that period to guide them through challenges, issues or concerns. Issues that many or all probationers come access throughout their probation at some stage.
Sadly, if you were white you were on your own and wasn't afforded that extra assistance or guidance.
I was working at Edmonton police station in North London and I challenged this on an internal platform.
Within a few hours I received a personal email from a Chief Inspector and Superintendent, both of whom suggested I refrain from any negative views on this project.
The Superintendent (who still serves today but now in another force) made veiled threats that if I didn't remove the communication or change my view that matters 'could go further'.
Many people today wonder why things aren't challenged in the job, particularly around race related issues.
The problem remains that if you dare to challenge these things, you are either bullied into submission or punished.
Thankfully, I was in my final few months of the job & really didn't care anymore. If I was staying, I would have had to toe the party line and remain silent.
Many officers hate these schemes, but are too afraid to speak out & instead just accept that things are the way they are.
Race plans aren't only external projects within the job, they very much control things internally too.
@RadioGenoa I thought that "treating them as a collective group... irrespective of their actual opinions, beliefs or actions as individuals" is banned by the government's anti-muslim hostility definition? Oh yes, only when it's negative. When will Starmer praise Christians the same way?
Hi Zack, I'm a British-born Israeli who was stabbed 18 times by a Palestinian terrorist. Another chopped up my friend in front of my eyes. One got out in the hostage deal. They were paid a salary for years by the UK gov.
Could you tweet: "all of this is a horrific crime. He should be held to account."
Thanks
🇬🇧 Multiple angles have now emerged of British Riot Police beating a protester, including repeatedly kicking him in the head while pinned and motionless, at a demonstration over police mishandling of the Henry Nowak case.
Follow: @europa
We've all seen the video.
More Southampton officers engaged in misconduct, and not arrested. Their victim this time, not a dying 21 year old student but a veteran with his leg held together by pins.
Hampshire constabulary appears rotten to the core.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN SO QUICKLY? Daniel Frost has been remanded in custody and his case sent to Crown Court for pushing a bin at police during protests over Henry Nowak’s murder.
The judge ruled it “too serious” for magistrates.
This is two-tier justice laid bare. White British protesters face swift, harsh punishment for minor acts while knife criminals on bail murder people and Manchester Airport attackers assault officers yet walk free.
The system protects the guilty and punishes those demanding accountability for a dead teenager. It is rotten.
Imagine being remanded in custody for pushing a wheely bin towards police but being let off after repeatedly punching and breaking a policewomans nose.
Now imagine our PM trying to convince us that there's not two tier policing.
@AshfordLabour There are 4.9m children in UK primary schools. 10m breakfasts is 2 per child. Is that what you mean by "promise delivered"? Or are you gaslighting us yet again?
Matt Styler, 50, of Orange Grove, Gosport, was charged with assault by beating of an emergency worker during the trouble on Tuesday night.
He was today remanded in custody at Southampton Magistrates' Court after he pleaded not guilty and opted to be tried at Crown Court despite being told the Magistrates' Court could deal with the alleged offence.
Prosecutor Nola Bond told the court: "In essence, it is part of the riots following the murder of Henry Nowak.
"The defendant was seen sitting on a wall. The police had advanced forward so the majority of the protesters were ahead of the police. The defendant was behind the police lines."
Ms Bond said a tussle broke out between officers and Styler after he allegedly refused to move before then kicking out at a police sergeant.
Styler, who the court heard is a military veteran and married dad-of-three, appeared in the dock wearing a blue polo top.
His lawyer Bruno Haine told the court: "He's sitting on a wall next to someone else. The police ask him to get off in their way, He has 13 pins in his right ankle of which he's had an x-ray a few days before and one is coming out of the skin so he can't just jump off the wall."
Mr Haine alleged an officer used a shield to inflict pain on his client's ankle before other officers began grabbing him from the side and pushed him to the floor.
He told the court: "An officer kicked him in the head four times with quite a bit of force."
The defendant gave a military salute to a man in the public gallery while being led back to the cells.
Source: The Mirror
@GBNEWS Defending our country from uncontrolled immigration of military-age men, many of whom turn out to be violent? No, thought not. Just grandstanding on the international stage yet again. Lies, gaslighting and deceit is all we get from you.
@labourlewis There are over 50 Muslim countries, most geographically closer than UK. Why should UK, a non-Muslim country, feel a "moral duty" if Muslims don't feel the same? Is this another attempt to win Muslim votes dressed up as morality?
@DavidLammy "Stand to gain stronger protections". That means your consultation is a sham since you've already decided.
If people want the benefits of marriage, let them marry or enter a civil partnership. Even you must be able to see the logic in that.
Clueless Policing Minister Sarah Jones completely falls apart under Nick Ferrari’s questioning 🤦♂️
In a painful LBC interview, Sarah Jones was asked a straightforward question about the Hampshire officers who handcuffed dying 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he bled out from multiple stab wounds, after wrongly treating the stabbed student as the aggressor.
Nick Ferrari: “It’s reported the officers involved won’t be referred for misconduct. Why is that?”
Jones immediately stammers and hides behind the IOPC investigation.
Ferrari presses: “As of now they haven’t been referred for misconduct? Are they still serving on frontline duties?”
Again, nothing. Just more IOPC deflection.
Ferrari: “Why can’t you tell me whether they’re still on the frontline? Don’t the people of Southampton have a right to know?”
Jones keeps parroting the same line about the IOPC “looking at footage, talking to officers, talking to the family…”
Ferrari, clearly fed up: “Minister, I asked whether they’re still serving frontline duties. Do you know whether they are or not?”
Jones starts the IOPC script again. Ferrari cuts her off:
“But do you know whether they’re still on the frontline, Minister?!”
Flustered and stuttering, she mumbles something about speaking to the chief constable.
Ferrari: “Have you asked the chief constable? It’s causing concern. You don’t know, do you?”
Then comes the most ridiculous line of all: Jones admits she does know the answer… but she won’t tell the public because “an investigation is ongoing.”
What the actual f*ck?
This has nothing to do with prejudicing an investigation. It’s a basic yes or no: Are these officers still out on the streets policing the public right now? The people of Hampshire and Southampton deserve to know.
This is what we get from this government, a Policing Minister who either doesn’t know what’s happening in her own brief or is too scared to say it. Pathetic.
@CHinchliffMP There's no water so nationalise it? How does that produce more? If there's no water build more reservoirs! We're not short of rain. Either make water companies store more water or build one with public money and charge companies to use it. But nationalisation doesn't solve it.
A 15-year-old British girl in Leamington was gang-raped by Afghans. She recorded everything on her phone, begging “Help me, please help me, they’re going to rape me.”
Her lawyers said the footage couldn’t be released — it would cause riots across the country.
So the truth is suppressed to protect the narrative.
Afghan rapists. British child victim. Evidence hidden.
This is the grooming gang nightmare on steroids.
The British people deserve the full truth — no more cover-ups.
@toadmeister For us perhaps, but not for him. His standard of living will be unaffected and will probably rise as a result of him and his brother profiting from it all.
@PolitlcsUK@Telegraph How would he increase taxes on "online tech giants"? Tax turnover rather than profit? Well Labour does that for landlords so there's a precedent but it's not a good one. And since pubs are disproportionately struggling with huge business rate increases why only 20% less for them?