The British Transport Police are facing criticism for axing mandatory fitness tests, claiming they’re not fair to women. The Mail has more.
British Transport Police said female officers were suffering “indirect discrimination” from doing a so-called bleep test – in which they have to run up and down a 15-metre track for three minutes 35 seconds – because they were far more likely to fail than men.
Now only new recruits and specialists, including dog handlers and armed officers, are required to pass a fitness test.
BTP, whose 3,000 officers patrol railway stations across Britain, said the move had meant 50 people who had failed the test had been allowed back on the front line.
But last night critics said that officers had to be in shape.
One serving officer told the Mail on Sunday: “Members of the public call the police expecting officers capable of doing the job of protecting them.
“It’s embarrassing to see colleagues who can barely do up their stab vest, and knowing they might not even be able to manage a two-minute jog is not just concerning but dangerous.” …
BTP has become the first force to drop the test for all officers.
It had said in a 2021 report on the gender pay gap that it had concerns about the impact the test has “on women, particularly those going through menopause”.
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Birds of Prey are always looking down. They don’t see the blades coming. I guarantee you that if fossil fuels wiped out birds and bats on an industrial scale like this there would be flames spitting from the silly eco socialists eyes and shops will be sold out of super glue.
I stopped and talked to an RSPB activist who was manning a stall a few weeks ago. I told her that I would start to take the “charity” seriously when they started campaigning against the bird-slaughtering wind turbines which so-called environmentalists are promoting on land and sea.
She looked stunned that I had dared to challenge the good intentions of so-called environmentalists …. and had no response to my argument.
Needless to say they didn’t get a penny from me.
Brainwashed people go with the flow. They become part of the group think because that is much easier than thinking for themselves.. A few years ago I was speaking to a married couple who were both Zoologists. They started to talk about the climate and pollution. So I asked them “What kind of pollution are you referring to”? The husband replied “CO2”. ——So I asked “How much CO2 is in the atmosphere, and how much comes from humans”? Neither of them could answer. They could not even venture a guess. This is what propaganda and groupthink does to you. People will tend to believe things the most about which they know least about. Just like the RSPCA person you mentioned.
The RSPB also buy into the “avian flu” argument rather than that 5G are killing sea birds.
I look at all the fuss made about coral reefs and then compare it with the lack of fuss over major bird and bat species and think that these people don’t really care for diversity.
Hypocrites.
“Bat-slicing, bird-chomping eco-crucifixes!”
As James D would say.
Wait until they realise that the sonar navigation of marine mammals gets totally destroyed by offshore wind farms.
The people want to destroy the environment with useless wind turbines and solar panels