A perk of attending the Sikh Samagam Festival today was getting to experience incredible hospitality! The team loved sampling some traditional foods! 😍
The event is free for all members of the community to attend and there are lots of fun activities. Last day tomorrow!
@StuartHumphryes ...the first *post-Windrush* black Met officer. Thanks to the research skills of @blackpoppies14, we know of the mixed-race Supt Robert Branford joining in 1838 & portrayed here by an @pastpleasures1 reenactor. History - never plain and rarely simple! #blacktwitterlive 🖤🖤🖤
Well done for having the bravery to acknowledge IR. Hopefully this will spare on other @PoliceChiefs to do the same, particularly given the crisis in confidence currently facing policing. Difficult to see the race action plan moving forward without it now
https://t.co/HdUjFV5cfi
Today is #StephenLawrenceDay - a day for reflection and a desire to eradicate racism and discrimination.
At a special event this week held by the @NBPAUK in conjunction with the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation, NPCC Chair Gavin Stephens spoke. Here are some of his key points:
Thousands of people took part in the #Vaisakhi parade yesterday, which returned to Vancouver after a three-year hiatus. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make the celebration such a success.
Unfortunately behind a pay wall but great to see Baroness Casey speaking out so powerfully. We can't have the same apologies, promises and lack of action https://t.co/WrBZxxnvKU
“Stuff you say doesn’t happen in the Met”
Is what we have heard over & over again. & nothing gets done about it.
Well it’s here officially
One Sikh officer had his beard trimmed; while another had his turban put in a shoe box; and a Muslim officer found bacon in his boots
Happy birthday to our Met Sikh Police Association, which has been bringing police, community & culture together for 25 years! 💙
To mark the occasion, we’re looking back at more than 50 years of Met Sikh history and pioneers.
Apply to join the Met ⬇️ https://t.co/jVr6gKo6Kw
Today we remember those murdered and injured in the 2019 terror attack at Fishmongers' Hall on November 29, 2019.
Three years on, let us honour and remember those lost and stand with those still impacted by this tragedy.
22 November 2022: Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, died in hospital two days after a fire at her home which had killed her two daughters Naeemah Drammeh, aged one, and Fatimah Drammeh, aged three. A neighbour Jamie Barrow, 31, has been charged with their murders
MPSA and @nspauk supports the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. We express oursolidarity with victims and calls for action to end gender-based violence in the unifying colour orange of the UN campaign.
#OrangeTheWorld#16daysofactivism2022#16DaysOfActivism
Many thanks to PC Singh of @DurhamPolice for sharing his thoughts about the meaning of #Gurpurab .Wishing everyone celebrating all the very best @nspauk @PositiveActnDHM @NBPAUK
2day marks the 49th anniversary of the death of PC Karpal Kaur. She was the 1st South Asian female officer to join the Metropolitan Police Service back in 1971. She was and still is an inspiration for all of us. May her legacy as a pioneer always be remembered and upheld.