In the absence these days of simple manners, which always used to prevent a decent person from being rude or nasty to someone simply because they are of a different race, we now have endless Diversity Training. I am booked on to the One Day Self-Awareness, Diversity, Learning and Skill Sharing Conference at a particularly grubby national hotel chain half way across the county.
This course is mandatory for all sergeants and Inspectors. Apparently, names will be taken and anyone failing to attend will be speaking to the Chief Superintendent personally. Funny that, because when I tried to speak to him to get a RIPPA authority so we could follow a man we knew was accosting children in the park he wasn’t available. But he is available to hand out a rollocking to anyone who missed the course, so more for my Chief Inspector’s benefit than mine (he has been accused of not being able to ‘manage’ me) I have decided to go.
The joining instructions instruct me to bring an item which is precious to me, something I think will start a discussion, something which sums up the way I feel about Diversity. I can’t take my own book, so I have decided to take a poster sized version of the photo below.
Here we have one of the Diversity team’s most favourite people in a celebratory victory handshake with one of the Diversity team’s least favourite people. When I am asked what it is that I feel is so precious, I will say the life of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. Do you think that will start a discussion?
First
Yea, two firsts in a day. Time to sup some ale
Or time to step away from the laptop, walk outside and get some fresh air?
LMAO!
Top three?
Top ten! Lol
Fifth. get in.
Oh, fourth actually. Kwalitee.
Fifth. best this Year
Are they available for children’s parties?
I was in a Met Control Room when the news of WPC Yvonne Fletcher’s murder came through. I can still remember the faces of the other personnel and the disbelief and chill I felt.
I’d been in the job three weeks. Many officers have been murdered since but only Keith Blakelock is as seared in the memory as Yvonne Fletcher.
I remember being very young and seeing Yvonne Fletcher’s picture and the news she had been shot- I was at my Gran’s. My Gran told me it was no job for a girl.
I can clearly remember the shock of the adults around me that a female police officer had been shot.
Top 10! Personal best!
It’s just about worth sitting through their shit if there’s a buffet. Oh & and early finish. No questions!!!
No, we don’t finish courses early, even if they are half-a-day crammed into one. We go to the place we feel most comfortable to reflect and digest the course, silly.
Mine just happens to be fett-up in front of the tele or down the allotment!
Make sure everyone else attending has the same photo, so you can all hold them up in an “I am Spartacus” moment.
I would take an “I’ve met the Met” sticker… Gold dust!
The new ones are very diverse with a PCSO in em. Hmph
I’ve met Pcso steve is surely the future?
Or should I keep my two whole rolls of imtm stickers stashed away for another few years before I unleash them on the bay
I still have some originals too. Before they went all ‘diverse’
Any chance of telling us about COMMON PURPOSE and its Courses attended by the high and mighty within the force ?
Knob
Careful now!
You are getting a bit too close to the real cause and away from the symptoms……………
You can also mention Lockerbie whilst you’re at it. Those two points alone should keep the discussion going until lunchtime at the earliest.
ooooh i’ll have tenth please
Which one is supposed to be the one the diversity team won’t like? I’m quite sure Gaddafi was probably trendy at one point – fighting Western imperialism and all that.
Anyway, I hope you get a chance to stick it to the diversity muppets.
If you need a second topic of conversation, trying asking them “why do diversity teams still have (non) jobs when the country is up financial sh*tcreek?” , or even ” why are we wasting our time here?”
I think he stopped being trendy when he was kind of assimilated into Western Imperialism and was invited into bed with Tony Blair et. al (who were blinded by a love of oil and the fact that Qadaffi wore sharp suits and was well educated).
top 10?
Do you presume by ‘manage’, the Chief Superintendent means that your Chief Inspector has been, thus far and forever, unable to stop you thinking what they know you’re thinking, which they’d prefer you weren’t thinking; thus meaning you’re known to be thinking things they don’t want you thinking and that they CERTAINLY don’t want you saying outloud, because they are the Thought Police of the Emperor and his New Clothes, unable themselves to ACTUALLY police?
I think I must work in your nick on one of the other teams … they sound like my lot.
And mine.
Hang on, does this mean that ALL of the inspectors contributing to this blog, actually all work at the same nick?! … or is it just that most Chief Inspectors and Chief Superintendents have delegation / control / insecurity issues?
If we are, and I work out which one of you is kissing the superintendent’s arse and providing information about what the inspectors think, I’ll hunt you down like a dog.
I’m trying to work out which of us would do which job … thoughts?
Got a stukatch in the ranks then? I suppose it would be teaching the proverbial Grandmother to suck eggs if i said that you need to do the proverbial targetted leaks of info to find out who the leaker is.
Hypothetical conspiracy theory, only. I’m not sure the superintendents’ pets would be on here, maybe I’m wrong.
I being invited to sit in an ‘inspectors-only’ away day, to sort out problems on that BCU for that rank and the SMT. The facilitator basically said, “Let’s get it all out in the open, then?” … thinking it would be as easy as that.
I remember looking around the room saying, “Tell me if I’m off the mark, here: but this room of inspectors won’t do that, because no inspector in this room trusts every inspector in this room. If I’m wrong about this, then you MUST say so and I’ll wind my neck in.”
Silence … inspectors are a curious group, just over half don’t want anything, just under half want to be in the SMT. That fact is quite often, almost totally unmentioned.
I take it that any discussion of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding will be banned at the diversity training.
My how I had to admire the hard working honest as the day is long travellers on that programme, who were so honest that many had to have their faces pixellated out as they were doing discounts for OAPs for hedge trimming, roof repairs and driveway tarmacking that were so good that they would have been completely inundated with work.
As for the Brides they were classic BOBFOCS
(Body off Baywatch, Face off Crimewatch)
Just play them at their own game.
Ask them if they agree that we should respect a persons sexuality and should in no way discriminate them.
Then ask them if they have similar opionions about a persons religions and how those views should be respected.
Then raise the recent high profile issue of the Christian B+B owners who turned away a gay couple. The couple obviously took civil action and received substaintial damges.
Ask them if the agree with the decision, which no doubt they will. Then raise the point that by agreeing with that decision, they support the discrimination of Christian beliefs and values.
At which point, they will attempt to dig themselves out of the hole but the beauty of this example is that whatever answer they give, they will be contradicting themselves.
Caution though, this has been known to cause heads to explode.
Sir, consider that stolen, to be used at the next diversity course I get spammed with.
I’m not sure that not allowing people to discriminate against others is what I’d call discriminating against them. If you were treating them differently because of their religious beliefs that would be discriminatory however this is a case of them being treated the same as anyone else would be so there is no contradiction here.
Similar fun can be had when discussing Islam and sexism, the hijab and homosexuality.
Or the issue of gay clergy.
Bless em.
Life when so much simpler when we just had an Oath an the Law to deal with
I also had fun with my ‘Diversity Champion’ a couple of years ago. As an atheistic soul, I asked him how atheism was reflected within the BCU Diversity Strategy, given its equal status as a ‘philosophical belief system’ under the Employment Equality (Relgion and Belief) Regulations 2003.
When I then asked that the diversity strategy be re-written to take account of this and that the KIN should developed reflect the fact that more than half of the local population live their lives without reference to God – especially when I did so on email, copied to the Ch Supt – it got a “go fuck yourself” kind of look at the next management meeting.
We didn’t start the fire – no we didn’t light it, we’re just trying to fight it.
LOL…
That reminds me of an VERY PC Insp that said something about there being too many chiefs and not enough indians…
i looked at him dead-pan and said…
‘Sir, you probably don’t know this but my family are related to the tribe known as the Lakota. The white man called the Sioux for some reason. We don’t like being called ‘indians’ I think Native Americans is more accurate.’
After a ‘pale face’ (geddit?) and much apologies, my words of iron had him grovelling for weeks…
lol…
Here here. My force want me to police the Gay Pride but I’m a Roman Catholic. My religion doesn’t approve of this.. Whose views should they being taking into account ?
You’re on ropey ground there.
As a police officer, you signed up to carry out your duties ‘without fear, favour, malice, ill-will or affection’ (or at least that’s how it was worded in my day) and therefore your religious beliefs, however sincerely held, should have no bearing on the duties you are instructed to carry out.
No police officer should be entitled to opt out of any facet of police work on the basis of who or what their particular sky-pixie or medieval faith tells them to hate.
Sorry, got all serious there….
Quite rightly so, though. The only problem is, that there ARE examples of officers being excused duty on what I might badly call ‘conscientious’ grounds. The Met officer who was excused guarding an Embassy, because the country involved were opposed to his religion, etc..
If we either have conscientious objection, or we have – far more preferably – no objection to duty on political grounds, then at least we all know the rules.
When it’s inconsistent, it becomes my version of unfair.
top 25 for the first time
Wouldn’t your Force have a more-diverse group of officers, if not everyone was forced to attend a ‘diversity’ conference?
Here’s a challenge. How about taking a white, non-disabled hetrosexual male that hasn’t been discriminated against. Bet you can’t find one!
Or better, take a white, non-disabled male who claims to be a homosexual hermaphrodite – then dodge the exploding heads!
Very true CC; rarer than hens teeth.
We had a round of this bollocks a while ago on a borough training day (mandatory for Response but apparently no one else). A number of staff associations came in to talk to us. One of the old sweats put his hand up at tend and asked if there was a “White straight officers club or one for people who just do their fucking job and don’t ask for days off to go and talk to other people from their “ethnic group.” Could’ve heard a pin drop ;o)
A possible ‘topic for discussion’ –
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But how come they think he’s thinking what they think he’s thinking?
Sorry – defeated by the auto-edit.
A possible ‘topic for discussion’ –
” I feel I may be ‘bisexual’ – what evidence must I produce to secure status as a minority? “
Lol!
I am definitely tri-sexual. But only in a uni-sexual kind of way. My best is decem.
Seems even those down under aren’t completely immune from this kind of stuff…(linky below)
http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/Video.aspx?videoid=af53d2ac-f507-4e8d-983a-a5a259bbe6fc
Just look at the Australian response…. SIX MONTHS imprisonment for making a false allegation against a Police Officer!!! Now that is public support*
*That would NEVER happen in the UK – In fact, I doubt there would even be any effort to prosecute the woman concerned. There would, of course, be plenty of man-hours invested in investigating the complaint, but that would only be against the officer (who would no doubt have every aspect of their character scrutinised to a level normally reserved for murder suspects).
Man – hours?
Report immediately with Inspector Gadget for mind-cleansing.
Damm, you got me!
I actually know a PC who was ‘challenged’ for using this term when overheard using it in a private conversation with a colleague. He stood open-jawed for a few seconds trying to wonder if the female Inspector who’d just told him off was actually joking or not!
Turns out she was serious…
Long live the PDR!
Poisonous cow. This case should be added to the dictionary under ‘poetic justice’.
She wouldn’t have got 6 months in this country if she’d stabbed him in the eye.
Well… that was amazing…
Here, the officer wouldn’t have got an apology…
In fact, he would still have been done I suspect.
Remember, here it’s only the PERCEPTION of racism that’s important!
I love Australia…
Insp G… Don’t bother going…… Go and see the Chief super then tell him it’s a waste of time and money, money which could be better spent on getting put there and catching criminals. What’s the worst he could do? I have no time for this shit… I turn up and switch off… I wouldn’t take anything they asked…it’s load of CRAP…
Same with OST. Once every five years would be plenty.
OST training like most if not all other “courses” is there to cover the jobs arse not yours just in case one is ever complained about …..you did the course, therfore you are an expert have all the answers and are now answerable…
Just wait and see how shite your OST is going to be in Metro City. These new regional learning centres are a shit idea and are doomed to fail. The new ‘department of training and whatever’ has had an SMT for months but no one to actually manage. How much of a waste of wages is that?
They send out newsletters with their grinning mugs all over it but no one knows what’s actually going on.
Seriously when it seems stupid, it usually means someone has got a promotion out of it. Yes?
I give the regional learning centres about six to nine months. After that there’ll be no one left who can work as their els/ost status will have expired as they can’t get time off shift to go/the centres can’t accomodate them/the whole system implodes.
What do you reckon angrymet?
I reckon you might be bang on the money there mucker!
It’s the brainchild of a DAC who I believe has retired anyway. Or is going quite soon.
They won’t work. The training will be rubbish. It’s doomed I tell ye, doomed. Ha ha ha ha!
I’m Sooo angry, I didn’t check my post for mistakes.. Doh…
It would be too easy from your picture to say one is a nasty terrorist and the other is Gaddafi….
Let us be honest, can you speak your mind if you oppose ‘diversity’, multi-culturism, gay rights, feminism etc….. ?
If the answer is no, are we living in a free country with freedom of speech? The people in those middle east countries are dying for ‘freedom’…’democracy’ or whatever. Should we not be brave enough to openly oppose the diversity mafia?
I believe in respect for all, preferential treatment for no minority or majority.
You can have your ‘free’ speech provided you dont ‘offend’ anyone.
To be offended today seems to be akin to being diagnosed with HIV – there is no phsyical trauma, no outward manifestation, but people act as though they are about to drop dead.
People need to grow a pair – in the coming years there is going to be plenty for the handwringers to get offended over – mainly being robbed outside their local nick that was closed as part of Camoron’s ‘Big Society’ or the fact that their second home has been ‘occupied’ by the great unwashed (soon to be the majority of the indigenous population of this once great nation).
I get offended just listening to the whinging tossers – where’s my compo?
I may have told this one before…..
On my last diversity course the flowery DS (never seen any real action) said that anything we say would stay in the room…..yeah right…..she then asked if any of us had any predjuces they would like to admit.There was a lot of foot shuffling and eyes to the floor before I put my hand up.My mates are thinking “shut up you idiot”….the DS said “yes thanks for being honest Jaded,who are you prejudiced against?”.I replied ” I hate criminals,Man Utd fans and diversity trainers” to much laughter.
I shut up the rest of the day but lunch was very tasty.
I was accused of being ‘obstructive’ and ‘fighting the trainer all day’…
However, a response insp said he agreed with my initial remark and that shut her up…
lol
ANOTHER diversity course? What are they going to blather on about on this one that they haven’t on the ones before? Is there something new? What a load of bollocks!
Good luck – hopefully there’s a free buffet lunch with some small onion bhajis and other ‘indian’ snacks on offer. Never any JERK CHICKEN though!
Funny you should say that ranter. I just indulged in some jerk chicken, so damn hot it lead me to conclude that Levi Roots is a psychopath, lol
Can’t beat the jerk chicken served up at carnival every year. Although I noted last time Zulu is not playing on the feeding centre video player anymore.
This whole diversity issue makes me very angry! The MPS have an EIGHT page strategy document! How many of my tax payers pounds were used to pay for this???
The Warwickshire Police use this load of bo***x – As a Force we have clearly articulated our commitment to diversity and our aim to ensure: “no person will be treated less favourably on grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, gender, marital or parental status, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, proposed or actual gender re-assignment, economic group, employment status, politics, staff association or trade union membership, or any other condition which cannot be shown to be wholly justified in relation to employment with Warwickshire Police or in delivering services to the community” in all that we do.
If I ran this country ALL organisations would follow this motto – “treat everyone fairly” and be done with it!
Grrrrrrrrrr
We were all wondering how your date went?
lol. u guys make me laugh. I’m afraid I haven’t heard from Agent Zig Zag since I called him Ziggy!
I am told he prefers “Zaggy”.
He is,however, doing very well.
Good to hear. I wonder if he bears any resemblance to the original Agent Zig Zag – lover, betrayer, hero, spy???
I though his name was Zigster, international man of mystery.
Dizzy Blonde, sounds like your becoming all unnecessary. Have a cuppa and a lie down, Pet.
Ex-Peeler,
I have gone by many names in my time, Ziggy. Zaggy, Zigster all fine by me.
And DB, I be all those things and more. A duplicitous creature that is what I have become out of necessity. However, underneath this veneer, I am a person of integrity.
So now it’s ‘DB’ and ‘Ziggy’?! …
We must all imagine the date went well if you’ve moved onto pet names, so quickly.
You called me Ziggy? Oh, mysterious maid of the Bard’s county. And as he once penned,
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Dunno about you mate but my love looks with it’s hands.
Oh 24/7 – you’re so right! Somethings I think I write stuff just to get a reaction!
Altho I don’t like to see money wasted on such nonsense. I’m v careful with my own.
And to the honest Agent – quoting Warwickshire doesn’t mean I’m from there, it justs means I have access to the internet
I’ve spent some time in the sunny South but I’m just a good ol’ Northern lass at heart.
24/7
I am doing very well.
A friend of mine (not in the police, in the employ of the local council) was strong-armed into a similar ‘workshop’. He’s Edinburgh born and bred, of Nigerian parents, and describes himself as “the token ethnic” on nights out. He stormed out after an hour, when the ‘facilitator’ and her repeated attempts to make him admit to feeling oppressed pushed his temper to breaking point. He now has a deep and abiding hatred for anything with the word diversity in it.
But isn’t the trainer discriminating against him by trying to force him to feel that way?
Normally I’d put a “:-P” at the end of a statement like that, but disturbingly I’m really not sure if I’m joking or not…
Take him the contradition between the domestic violence force policy and the muslim faith who treat woman as if from the stone age.
Gadget,
You on annual leave or bored? Your posting rate has become quite prolific.
not that I’m complaining…
other than not being anywhere near first….
I’m just getting more angry…………
Never get angry-just get even-it may take days months years-but it will come.
We still have manning up as an overtime code in my Force, which is a large one in Scotland which wants to assimilate all the others. Hungry Hungry Hippos..
I’ve never understood why we have so many forces, anyway. It’s not that big a country, for crying out loud.
Correct, one police force per Government Office area would be quite sufficient. Does that make it 9, 10 or 11?!
Something like that …
re; 9,10, 11 or 41,
Same number of those on the front line or even a bit thinner, but level of filters between the base and the eerie be more, thus the word on the street gets afew more massages before it be consumed.
Modern management is more hi rise dough than edible goo.
There is more money for the top floor if there are more floors to scale.
Yeah, but not one force in Scotland thanks. I certainly don’t fancy being assimilated by the Weegies. Nice enough people, but they wear silly big hats and call police stations ‘offices’ for some strange reason.
Manning?????? Please wash your mouth out with soap!!
I now await someone to tell me that the above phrase shows my lack of diversity awareness. And quite frankly, I don’t give a damn.
You didn’t by any chance see your Ayrshire Ch Supt on Reporting Scotland this evening by any chance? (talking about that LOB shooting in Auchinleck) What’s with the bleached spiky hair? Jesus wept, he looked like a 50-year-old Limahl from Kajagoogoo on a reunion tour.
Wet myself when watching that at work.
He looks like a retired old has been footballer. I was expecting the orange tanned blonde to pop up next to him.
Total fisty mchoopnugget of a bloke
Yeah, yeah. You’ll have a fight on your hands…
Hope it’s better one than the Scottish rugby team put up two weeks ago!
I’m an outsider to this diversity lark, just an ordinary private sector worker. What I can’t understand about the photo is why they are not both favourites of the diversity mob. One of them is black, the other is a Muslim. Both are clearly victims, because they are not white. Yes, one is more victimised than the other, but you will have to play Victimhood Poker to sort out which.
With regards to Gadaffi it might be the whole crazy murderous despot thing that they find off-putting, I mean I don’t really know of anyone voicing support for Idi Amin or Robert Mugabe, do you?
As for that link I had to chuckle when it claimed well off people were being discriminated against when they applied to Ivy League Colleges…
But then I had a look around the blog and found that the person who writes the blog genuinely believes that Obama is a socialist, which is funny because I never noticed any collectivisation of farming going on or the redistribution of the wealth of American corporations (who are earning record profits) to the general populace (who are seeing median wages drop and unemployment pushing 20%).
In all the time i’ve been in “the job”,which is……ages,I can say hand on heart that my colleagues do not treat people any differently if they are BME,OR gay,disabled etc.
They might get more support etc ,but NOT,repeat NOT discriminated against.
We DO NOT need diversity training,!!
We are actually adults believe it or not!!!!!!!
I recall one having uttered the words “…without fear or favour…”
Which I took to mean- treating everyone on their own merits, or lack thereof.
It’s as the great John Stevens once said “go where the evidence leads you”
Its not as if we go to a call, see the people involved and think “oh he’s black/gay/Muslim etc- he must be in the wrong”….. you go where the evidence takes you. If it points to you being the culprit then you’re getting nicked.
Can’t say too much but a few years back Officers on a certain PSU course were allowed to have their name/nick name printed on their training T shirts, to create camaraderie etc.
One black guy had ‘Midnight’ printed on his and there was a big enquiry to find out if ‘a racist’ had been calling him that.
The Officer replied that ‘Midnight’ was his family nick name and that is what his mum called him.
The diversity brigade were having none of it and made him change it. So he did – to 23.59.
You can always trust the diversity brigade to tell you how you are feeling about something.
LOL! Love the 23.59 – 00.00 (ala Damon Hill) would never do, would it…?
We had one at our place….
A black PC and a white Sgt bump into each other in the canteen. They have been mates for years but haven’t seen each other for some time.
They find out they are on the same course. White Sgt says I have been waiting for this course for years. Black PC says he has only waited a few months and “probably got it quickly because he was black”.
They have a laugh and exchange pleasantries.
Conversation is overheard by the “mind police” and white Sgt is brought in for a bollocking.
I don’t know what the diversity crew would have made of it, but a few years ago I used to to work with a young lady of IC3 appearance who called herself ‘Coke’ when speaking on the radio. I don’t know where the name came from. She was known as Coke by everybody and was a hard working officer well liked by all.
Glad to be…
Were you in a force in the East of the country by any chance….Where they went on about “The Borough Men”?
Gadget you are lucky to have face to face training nowadays.Nearly all of the training done by my (large) force is done on the computer by NCALT. What happens is we get emails telling us to do it.All the shiny arses and PCSO’s rush to the computer and spin it out as long as they can.Real policeman like me ignore the initial two or three emails as we are too busy.When the next email has a threat attached then I do it.
I have found a way to beat the system.We have an officer on restricted duties so I gave her my password and she let the trainingmodule run in my absence and I got the certificate printed out that way.I don’t feel under-trained in any way.
I personally would not use the phrase ‘ Lucky’. The waste of time provided by this alleged training should be referred to as a ‘Non Course’. That is all.
leave it running in the background whilst you work on your arrest paperwork.. the ghurkas will have no idea what that is
I recently gained an “exceptional merit” following completing a course in a similar manner. I thought it was a result seeing as the only words I read throughtout the entire module were the ones that said “next”. Not only do I now have a nice certificate, I am also fully appraised of the real risks of the terrible affliction known as “mouse finger” and how to avoid it.
An interesting subject for discussion would be Honour killings. Years ago – mid-80′s – my then-fiance told me about them. (I’m white english; she was Indian 1st generation muslim(ish) immigrant from Malawi.)
It took me a while to realise she considered it a real possibility for herself – the idea was so ludicrous to me at that time.
Good luck!
I’m afraid the thought Police are already here at least in Mirthshire.
Some time ago we were sent a global email from our commander regarding a Panorama programme’ Secret Policeman revisited’ all about treating black and ethnic minority officers and staff with respect and dignity.
He then blahed on about Mirthshire remaining ‘fully committed’, our ‘core values’, ‘way forward’ yawn yawn etc and finally this statement.
” I do want all staff to have confidence in bringing concerns to line managers” and “such reports will be properly and positively dealt with as part of our ongoing diversity work. You can have confidence that progressing this agenda is Force Policy”
At last !! some clear direction, not about crime I know but who cares. I felt secure and safe in my bed that night with this value beaten into me.
Smack smack.How insulting to all officers and staff.
My daughter, on the Met Civil Staff, was told she had to go on a “Female awareness” course. As she said in no uncertain terms to the Chief Super for whom she worked at the time, “I’m a female, I’m very well aware of the fact, and so as far as I am aware are all your randy male staff. And if they’re not aware how to treat a female, I’ll soon teach them should the occasion arise.” She got away with it because her civilian boss was in HQ, and the CS knew that if he got her moved, he would be unlikely to get a rapid replacement and expediency won.
Slightly off topic but if ever you needed proof that prison works, look at the poster. I’m sure the geezer on the left did a substantial amount of time inside and came out completely rehabilitated. Not only did he commit no further offences, but I understand did quite well for himself politically. Geezer on the right looks a bit dodgy though.
WTB a like button!
Why don’t you borrow that pretty flag from Suffolk? Or is that Inclusivity, we didn’t need either when I was a lad…..?
A second bite!
I’ve just been writing in my own blog ( http://english-pensioner.blogspot.com/ ) about the incompetence of the Foreign Office in getting our citizens out of Libya, Looking at your picture and reading about diversity training, which no doubt affects all government departments, I now realise why they won’t do anything as anything that upset this madman would be totally contrary to all that they have been taught. No doubt our citizens caught up in the gunfire will be fully appreciative of the fact that they are taking care not to upset his sensibilities.
IIRC, Libya was quite effective at getting (one of) its citizens out of a country where they were at risk?
“Incompetence of the Foreign Office in getting our citizens out of Libya.”
The British public did not insist these people go to one of the most unstable, volatile countries run by a proven genocidal, psychotic lunatic. In what way, precisely, is it MY responsibility as a tax payer to get people back.
I don’t recall those people who thought they could make a mint by going to work in Libya offering to pay the Government an form of insurance levy to come and get them in the event the wheel fell off.
And if you’re thinking that we DO have a moral obligation to get our citizens out because they now face mortal danger; where were you when other citizens facing very similar mortal dangers were, in my view rightly, told by the Government that it was not their role to launch a rescue mission. I refer to the Chandlers in Somalia; as well as to others caught up in other hostage / humanitarian / political crises the world over.
Fairness is in the eye of the beholder. BUt I’m just really grateful to that Scot on the radio, telling me how appalled he was that the Governemtn have ignored him for three days when he was busy piling his cash high, without a thought as to who’d get him home when GADDAFI stopped taking the tablets.
FFS …
What he said and what i normally shout when I hear such nonsense time and time again.
Nail/head blunt force trauma.
Phuk em, or at least make em pay towards the cost
Just what I was thinking, also, how many of these so-called ‘British’ citizens will actually BE from these shores?
I remember watching a Royal Navy evacuation from Lebanon once; looking at the motley crew of so-called ‘British’ walking up the gangplank, well, what can I say…..
So in your eyes would I and my close family members only qualify as being British in inverted commas then? Just wondered…
I’d guess that would depend upon your reply to the cricket question.
Golam Murtaza,
If you’re ever asked that question, just reply “Yorkshire” that’ll confuse them.
Gadget,
You are spot on! I have met a British passport holder who came from a country west of the Levant. He had never really lived in the UK but because his parents, who had been in the UK studying at University, registered his birth here he was deemed a British citizen. How can that be so?
‘Cricket question’? I haven’t been asked one as far as I can tell. Do you want to ask me one? Does IG??
Actually I’d asked IG a question, but I’d understand if he’s too busy to respond. Not an easy job being a police inspector. Totally appreciate and respect that.
GM,
The cricket question is something that harkens back to a member of Thatcher;s cabinet, Norman Tebbit, When he stated during an interview with a newspaper,
“A large proportion of Britain’s Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they cheer for? It’s an interesting test. Are you still harking back to where you came from or where you are?”
As for me, a good agent always makes time to speak to people whomever they are, whatever they are or from wherever they be. Be well.
Ah, now I get what you meant. No probs.
Could never get into cricket myself. Bit of an acquired taste.
Damn right sir! Non-white people can’t be truly British…
@’The Crunch’. Myself and my family are British and proud of it.
@IG Anything you’d like to say yet?
Still no answer from IG. And no reaction from him to The Crunch’s charming comment about non-white British people.
I’ll draw my own conclusions from this.
To clarify I was being ironical (not so sure about the OP though which is a bit disappointing).
Excellent post 24/7
Ta.
I agree, these people have been in bed with a pretty sordid regime in order to make lots of money from oil so I don’t really have much sympathy for them. They should be left to face the judgement of the locals for their part in all of this.
Can I take my Robinsons Jam memorabilia ?
And your 1960s Enid Blyton books.
F: LOL ;0)
And your copy of Dambusters.
Diversity training can be fun. Be sure to arrive each day with your copy of the Daily Wail tucked under your arm. No need to do any more than that…. The trainer will leave you well alone.
If I were to take an item along as suggested, I would take a picture of my son and his best freind. They are both four and love Ben Ten, ice cream and being noisey. Neither of them have noticed that they are diffferent colours or religions, they just get on with it. I think the diversity champions could learn a lot from kids..
Spot on. Back in the 70s when I was a kid my little brother asked our mum if he could bring his mate Andrew home for tea. He told her everything he could think of about Andrew, including his many medical problems. It never occurred to him to mention that Andrew was black because it just wasn’t important.
Funny you should say that. My son met him at nursery so I heard all about him before I met him. So I was fully up to speed with his glasses, fireman Sam wellies and how his Daddy wears a hat- which turned out to be a turban.
Race is only an issue if it is made to be one.
Seeing as you’ll have possession of your warrant card and that’s precious enough, just whip it out and explain further due to the power vested in you by *insert name here* you have far more important things to deal with than this LOB. Then walk out the door and don’t look back. Fisters the lot of ‘em.
LOL, your comment made my day before it had started.
Non PC PC – ‘fisters the lot of ‘em’, LOL ;0)
I’m very happily single. I’m not looking to meet the right man or woman. I do however like the puzzled look when replying ‘none’ to the sexuality question. IG can you ask them to add another box to the questionnaire please?
One thing that always gets me is when you ask certain members of our society what their self defined ethnicity is (obviously, after they ask what you are on about) the common response is Black British or Asian British. However they always seem very put out when they are told that it is not on the list. Doesn’t seem to encourage inclusivity, does it?
British or English?
I once got a severe bollocking for ‘childishness’ and ‘not taking it seriously’ by returning a diversity monitoring questionnaire with te sexuality box filled in as “Slut”
Just as this diversity crap was kicking off I had eighteen months left to do and had a heart attack. Bye bye job. Best thing that ever happened to me it would appear.
Boss….
Embrace the course….
Live and breathe it……
Become a believer – see the light…..
Then ask for a four and a half month trip with Mrs G to San Francisco at the jobs expense to investigate matters further….
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/856257-scottish-police-more-gay-friendly-than-in-san-francisco
Maybe you should take the other Gaddafi photo.
The one of him and Tony Blair. Mr Blair is sitting nice and straight in his chair and Muammar is relaxing back in his.
Two world leaders from different cultures
[opposites working together to overcome shared difficulties.]
{tick box 1}
Qaddaffi has the sole of his shoe pointing at Blair. Tony pretends not to notice. but the F.O. has already warned Blair so he does know.
Muammar is doing the Middle East equivalent of flicking ‘V’s right in the face of TB.
[different cultures have different methods of expression]
{tick box 2}
Item 3. Start a discussion.
Ask ..
Which one has the bigger ego?
Which one was driven from office by a coup?
Which one claimed to have discovered weapons of mass destruction, but actually didn’t.
Which one is the most likely to own a palace?
And, in a final piece of diversity knowledge worthy of an HSBC commercial you could offer all in the room to partake of some Libyan camel’s milk. Hint that its in solidarity with oppressed people and is also a gesture of friendship you have made to all and that to refuse would be a terrible insult to you personally.
Add that the Libyan despot liked to offer his guests camel’s milk as soon as they arrived. As a gesture of hospitality.
Once the assembled have drunk their fill explain that you personally never touch the stuff as it causes terrible, uncontrollable, flatulence.
…”But that’s why we are here isn’t it? To learn about other people’s views, customs and culture.”
Bow low and add “Assalamu alaikum”, which means “Peace be to you.”
Pass with flying colours, I’ll wager.
Bill….
Is this the one.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4599489/ns/world_news/
This photo also looks a little “diverse” too…
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/75415,news-comment,news-politics,britain-and-libya-a-very-embarrassing-friendship?DCMP=NLC-daily&lost=1
“Peace be upon you” but close enough.
Camels milk can also cause explosive immediate diarrhoea in those with sensitive stomachs- like me
Just watching Nick HERBERT on Newsnight … STOP PRESS:
Custody sergeants are NOT frontline police officers. They are part of the ‘middle office’, whatever the fuck that is.
Sounds like something from Tolkien, to me …
So custody sergeants get less spat on punched and abused than response officers? Oh and no nights too?
You’ll probably just be asked not to be “difficult” boss.
Seeing the pic of Stonehenge at the top, will you be bringing the druid religion into the diversity category, IG?
Don’t start having a go at the Welsh again
@WI – Would ‘the Welsh’ like their bluestones back? (Need to shift Stonehenge so we can get Salisbury Plain properly re-afforested)
Druids are different to Pagans, mainly because of the spelling.
[Grateful nod to Eddie IZZARD.]
And the Welsh were helping the druids carve the stones out of the very living mountain! “Fantastic! Building a henge, are we? That’s a fantastic idea. It’s a marvelous religion the druids have got, yes. A lot of white clothing, I like that.” They’d smash out a huge stone and then they’d put tree trunks down to roll it along on…”Help you push ‘em along, all right? It’s not far, is it?” And the druids going, “Heave, everyone, heave, well done everyone. You’re doing very well. You’ll love it when you see it, I’ve seen some of the drawings already, it’s very special.” After 200 miles, “You fucking bastard! You never told us 200 miles! Two hundred miles in this day and age? I don’t even know where I live now!… I wish the Christians would hurry up and get here!” And they set all the stones up and the druids are still tinkering around. “Ok, that stone and this one, can we swap them round?”
That’s the one … 10/4 Inspector!
Flanders and Swan – (? 1960s, but contains a reference to ‘anti social behaviour’ by residents of a new housing development)
// What’s this then? You’re not going to put up these ugly stone blocks here, are you? … A henge? Well, what’s a henge? You may call it megalithic culture, I call it vandalism. You realise this is about the last nesting place for mammoths in the whole of Wessex? What, with them building up the long barrows and the round barrows and the bell-shaped barrows, they’ve started cutting out these white horses in the hillside now, have you seen that? I dunno, it’s some sort of ad. for mead, I think. … I don’t know where you get that stone from anyway. It’s not local stone; I can tell. Where? The Preselli mountains? In Wales? I know it’s in Wales, I’ve been abroad. What do you want to bring it all that way – you’re bringing it the wrong way anyway. You want to bring it on the Chantebury ring road, avoiding earthworks at Avebury…Well, that’s all there is to it, just two up and one across the top? Well, if that’s modern architecture, roll on the ice age, that’s what I say. Well, you’ll never get a roof on it for a start. …Who wants to live in a thing like that? Well, you tell me when they start moving in, will you? We get quite a pretty rowdy crowd in some of these new developments. I don’t want to end up under the altar stone in a crouching position.
http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/tried_built.html
Oi!!
An item that is precious to me
Something that will Start a discussion
Something that sums up my feelings about diversity.
Short of putting my hairy testes on public display around the conference table, I would have to opt for my boxed set of the hit 1970′s situation comedy ” Mind your Language”
Or a set of “love Thy Neighbour” and state its the best thing ever put out on TV…..
Even back then most people thought these were simply horribly unfunny. As a kid I remember thinking how awful LTN was and I bloody HATE the national socialist obsession with diversity. LTN was simply coarse, rude shite!
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, though, was outstanding. It’s been banned by the Thought Police as well, because the Punka Walla was blacked up (or, more accurately, browned up).
Dis-armed robbers are in the news again.
//CCTV has been released of jeweller Chris Hooper throwing an armed robber over his counter and out of his shop – despite having a gun pointed at his head.
The robber … fled straight into the arms of passer-by Lithuanian Deivydas Jacikas, 20,.,,[who] managed to force one of the men to drop the handgun before the thief eventually shook him off and fled //
[Telegraph]
http://tinyurl.com/4odzxkl
http://tinyurl.com/6fp8obb
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
I have great pleasure in informing you that you have passed the written exam at a police recruitment assessment centre
Rtd Sgt
I think that would actually get you a 2.1 at most Russell Group Universities these days…
Sadly, you are right. I have horrible flashbacks from my education: at University they set about correcting the deficiencies in my schooling and whilst a post-graduate, they set about correcting the deficiencies in my undergraduate education.
Needless, I now pay a small mortgage every month so that my son doesn’t wake up with comprehensive school flashbacks which I (genuinely) had whilst remembering I was sent into my A-Levels having just been told they’d forgotten to teach us HALF the history syllabus.
(Oh, YES, they did.)
LOL!
But I believe (beeilve?) the trick only works if you’ve been brought up in a language, such as English, with its very diverse spelling. It doesn’t work eg for Italians.
actually there is a very close parallel in the Yvonne Fletcher incident – in Nelson Mandela has also been inside a builing, firing at the crowd outside – in 1994 he authorised ANC guards in the shell building in Joburg to fire on zulu protesters outsdie.
“The robber … fled straight into the arms of passer-by Lithuanian ,.,,[who] managed to force one of the men to drop the handgun
further to that
and the Lithuanian stole the gun, he was only going into the jewellers to use a dodgy credit card. Probably gave a false name too!!
off to diversity training for me again…
http://www.policepaganassociation.org/index2.html
I’d be interested to know what ‘issues are affecting Pagans within the Police Service’?
Well, not really. Rhetorical question I suppose.
Off post I know but take a look at Sky.
‘Rude Cops’ Spur Complaints Against Police. lPCC trying to justify its existence!
The comments made me laugh!
Is telling someone to Man the F*^* up! rude? or is it lacking diversity? i cant decide.
Always found it curious that a ‘mop’ can scream abuse at an officer but if the officer dares say something back its totally unacceptable and you cant say that to me etc etc
That IPCC press release has just dropped into my inbox. While I’m sure there are some genuine and justifiable complaints, I can’t help thinking it’s very one sided.
Insp. G
Why not use a little “out of the box” “blue sky” thinking when you attend your diversity pantomime?
I intend to redefine myself as a minority. Not now a middle aged white male hetrosexual but
A lesbian trapped inside a man’s body.
It works for me!
Sounds like you would get a bit of a lethal weapon response.’
‘but, but your white????’
Ahh…. I have the answer to that one.
I may look white but I am actually black.
Ethnicity is self-defined.
My ancestors came from the “Rift Valley” in Africa.
Ergo – I am of black origin.
If you want to argue with that then I will grievance you – you racist!
You could always take a page out of a friends book, she is white, blond haired, blue eyed the spitting image of a true english rose-
However she ticks the box for African when ever she can, something to do with being fiercely and proudly South African
Cue the “But But your white!!!! conversation”
Everyone is originally from Africa anyway.
As a disinterested observer, would the Inspector, or a close relative, like to advise me why all these people are claiming they were first, or tenth, or there, or wherever; and what their motives for these claims are?
MC. By my calculations you are approximately 143rd.
There’s a £250 prize (paid by Gadget from his SPP) to 1st place. Second gets £100, third £50 and a tenner for fourth.
If you are last to post you get a free ride in a clapped out 190K on the clock police IRV but you cant use the siren cos it has been bust for the last five weeks and form 759b(for its repair) has gone missing
I have no idea. But I have been told that being first is the best feeling you can get with your clothes on.
IG- have you good evidence that the “Order of Gadget-Firsters” actually perform their esoteric rituals whilst dressed?
If ye be disinterested, then why ask such a question? Are ye just an impertinent tickle-brained skains-mate?
1st to question the disinterested one’s motives.
Gadget,
Firstly, thank you for an insight into your job and that of the police more generally. It seems a crying shame that such devoted public servants are being hampered by idiots who seem desperate to prove how important they are and measure it by how difficult they make the lives of everyone else.
Secondly, you have mentioned the item you think will provoke discussion and the item you hold precious. Both excellent choices. What item(s) are you intending to take to represent how you feel about the course? Are you planning on visiting a farm before you go or are you perhaps going to use parts of the male anatomy?
Good luck on the course. Could you perhaops sue your force/service/diversity facilitators with a sideline in crime reduction for the mental distress caused by it all?
J
Not relevant to this topic but I notice that Melvin is posting in the Mail today supporting the view that the police are rude and unhelpful….
surprise surprise
rude and unhelpful
if they want to know who is rude and unhelpful, watch ANY fly-on-the-wall documentary about policing and see the PUBLIC being rude and unhelpful.
This is brilliant.
You’ll be striking a blow for long-suffering employees everywhere forced to live under this idiotic yoke.
I remember the last time I was obliged to take one of these courses.
It ended up in a stand up row between myself and the course “co-ordinator” (what else?) after I told the group about having spent many years working on nightclub doors at R&B and Bhangra nights and being on the receiving end of a lot of racism.
She claimed this was “reverse-racism”. I objected strongly on the grounds that to call it “reverse-racism” was to claim that it was something different (in particular – *less serious*) from/than garden variety racism. She dug her heels in on this point and it got worse from there….
I have yet another course coming up. It’s called ‘Stop and Search’ but that is just a euphamism for ‘Diversity’ and in any event you couldn’t make it last a day without bringing E&D.
I reckon this will about the 8th diversity course I’ve been on, all with basically the same input.
Every other piece of training I have ever had about proper police skills has been done once and once only and the force considers that the knowledge gained will stay with me forever, regardless of how often I use it. Even major incident training has been reduced to E-learning.
So why do I have to keep being retrained on diversity? By now either:
1. I was never any sort of ‘ist’ and don’t need the training
2. I was, but thanks to the first few courses I am now ‘cured’
3. I am still an ‘ist’ but through my courses I have learned to keep my mouth shut and act professionally.
4. I am still an ‘ist’, haven’t learnt after all these courses, and will have to be dealt with by normal disciplinary procedures the next time I offend.
Either way, the repeat courses are a waste of time and money and are just so the Force can say ‘we take this so seriously we sent him on 8 courses’.
Despite the flak we get when we run people over, and the obvious risk to public safety, I’ve just had my first refresher driver training in 15 years, having been driving Panda cars most of that time.
Priorities.
Off topic, but on a positive note;
I posted on this blog a while ago, that my force still had ‘Policing Pledge’ banners proudly displayed all around the main reception areas of our headquarters.
Having been to the dream factory today, all that remains are rawlplugs and bits of blutack on the walls.
I suspect that the command block are reading IG. Maybe the ‘Confidence Team’ and all the other associated bollocks will end up in the skip soon too.
No they are getting a visit from the Home Sec I reckon.
Your clearly not in my force. That shite is still plastered everywhere and even keeps a few people in a job because of it.
Love it. About bloody time.
The paper notices went fairly easily. Those behind locked glass cabinets took a bit more time, but a few tips from our local ‘lock smith’ cracked the access and removal – Thanks Bubba- we’ve arranged for an ex MP that you can enjoy.
So it’s now down to the Web Site – Do you think the direct quote from the Home Secretary will work????????? I didn’t either, but let us all celebrate…. The link to Metro City’s webby link has now been removed….Anybody have any ideas of how to get at Metro City’s webby link?????
Please promise to post on this blog how it goes when you show them the picture.
I have fond memories of my many enforced diversity courses – I can never resist the opportunity to puncture pomposity and have a deep seated hatred of being told what to think by “accredited trainers” – I played discrimination top trumps with a union rep at one a few years ago – I won because I was a lactating female, had a former husband who became a woman (and that sort of made me a lesbian), was a single mother, had two illegitimate children and was an elected Tory. That had to make me almost unique and thus very much discriminated against by just about everybody.
I think the trainer retired a short while later.
Go on Boss make them fucking have it…..
I always make do my part to screw with their heads by defining my ethnicity as Bangladeshi.
Just found this site – my oh my what a cynical lot you are! As the shift Sgt said to me after my boobs/bum had been groped yet again – ‘Well what did you expect – if you can’t take a joke you shouldn’t have joined’! Yeah, right…
boobs? on a bloke?
Just watched Gaddafi’s speech from Tuesday. If he ever had it, he’s lost it now.
He reminded me of “Muskrat” on “Deputy Dawg”*
*I suspect only old(er) will remember that cartoon
Back in the early fifties Chinese introduce brain washing want your bowl of rice , spout Mao
Now there is another group that says do it my way called the Taliban, and the English? Police have the new religion Diversity
di·ver·si·ty
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–noun, plural -ties.
1.
the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.
2.
variety; multiformity.
3.
a point of difference.
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English diversite < Anglo-French < Latin dīversitās. See diverse, -ity
"The dissimilarity in the ingredients which will compose the national government, and still more in the manner in which they will be brought into action in its various branches, must form a powerful obstacle to a concert of views in any partial scheme of elections. There is sufficient diversity in the state of property, in the genius, manners, and habits of the people of the different parts of the Union, to occasion a material diversity of disposition in their representatives towards the different ranks and conditions in society." ["Federalist" #60, Feb. 26, 1788 (Hamilton)]
Specific focus (in a positive sense) on race, gender, etc. is from 1992.
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Synonyms: assortment, dissimilarity, distinction, distinctiveness, divergence, diverseness, diversification, heterogeneity, medley, mixed bag, multeity, multifariousness, multiformity, multiplicity, range, unlikeness, variance, variegation, variousness
Antonyms: identicalness, sameness, similarity, uniformity
Perhaps this should be put up in every Police Station?
http://www.despair.com/diversity.html
Seen on the same site…”If you’re not a part of the solution,there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
Sums it all up really.
Training like this is best done in pairs. My job is to arrive early, armed with a copy of the Daily Heil, and sit in the front row in the middle. I will then spend the time staring at the person presenting the training while drinking my NATO Tea or Coffee (White with two sugars), and asking what time lunch is, and what is on the menu. At this point the presenter is starting to crack from the staring, white coffee and the daily heil, and the new demands for a diverse menu for lunch, to reflect the diverse people in the class. We have not even reached the registration point yet!!
Any failures over lunch are met with demands for a Bi Sexual White Church of England Menu for a human who believes they are of Chinese Origin option. Or why is mixed stir fry beef with noodles not being supplied????????
They then change to look at the back of the room.
My collegue has now wamed up the back rows, and will be doing a fine impression of a ‘ Service User i.e. S136 MHA. The demands for a black coffee without sugar also help. The strident demands following this from her about what police are doing to lower the glass coffee table helps to wreck any further outbreaks of ***inism.
If there are any female SMT people still left, we generally call an ambulance to help them. The arrival of our fellow emergency service coming in to state that they are here to treat a Chief Inspector ****** ****** goes down rather well!!
At this point the trainer normally calls for a fresh air break, which used to be called a smoke break. The instant retort that I recently gave up smoking, using NHS mind altering prescribed drugs, and that I therefore strongly object to the trainers language which is discriminating against me, normally produces a whimpering noise from the trainer, and the end of the day. The after party in the pub is fun though!! Couple of Cigars to celebrate!!
What he said.
Legendary story from the land of the spud. One of our lot got sent to Bramshill some years ago to catch up with what was going on in “Modern British Policing”. Early in the course, the instructor (or maybe it was a facilitator, you know what I mean) says, “We’re going to boardblast this issue and then we’ll discuss it. We used to call it brainstorming, but that could be offensive or upsetting to people living with epilepsy, so now it’s boardblasting” (Self satisfied smile).
Our guy groans inwardly and says sarcastically, “Actually as some one who has had blast bombs chucked at him on a few occasions, I find boardblast a bit “offensive and upsetting”. I’m not sure if I can go on with this class”. The other coppers chuckled a bit, but the instructor? Red faced, mortified, almost suicidal. Apparently he was still apologising as our guy was leaving on Friday for the 16:15 to sunny Belfast. Tosser.
//could be offensive or upsetting to people living with epilepsy, so now it’s boardblasting” //
Good job there wasn’t also a ‘person with epilepsy’ in the class when that comment was made.
//Epilepsy Society recently conducted a small survey among people with the condition and the overwhelming response was that the term is not offensive when used in its correct context, defining a session amassing spontaneous ideas as potential solutions to a problem.//
http://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/Homepage
A member of my force was killed. The murderer shouldn’t have been in the country but he had Human Rights. Tell that to his widow
Diversity means the following
1) You cannot use the word manpower or any word with man in it
2) Female officers are now PC’s
3)You call a female officer a PC and you get told I’m a WPC
4)You have to manage recruits who cant write or speak English(Yet they managed to pass an exam and give a talk at selection!!!)
5)Male officers have boy band haircuts and wear earrings
6)Everytime you apply for a job or are interviewed diversity is a must
7)I could go on and on
Its about time people realised that we joined the police to serve the public to protect life and property.This means we lock up prisoners for all crimes not just ones that tick boxes