You really couldn’t make this stuff up.
Rick Prior, the Chair of the Met Police Federation, recently gave an interview to GB News highlighting the fact that some police officers are reluctant to engage with members of ethnic minorities because they could be labelled as being ‘discriminatory’. Prior was then duly suspended by the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) for being discriminatory.
As a serving officer, I can tell you that the fear of suspension, or worse, if an interaction ‘goes wrong’ is all pervading. Aside from the obvious physical dangers, we know there are many activists and keyboard warriors out there who are just waiting to take some phone footage out of context and put it online, along with their mischievous interpretation of events. Also (and this is far worse), we know that police senior management will hang an officer out to dry if it means extricating themselves from any blame, regardless of context. They can then point to a ‘rogue officer’ rather than address any failings at a strategic level – of which there are many.
The Territorial Support Group (TSG) officers who were wrongfully dismissed following a stop and search incident involving athlete Bianca Williams is a case in point. They were dismissed for gross misconduct after a disciplinary hearing ruled they had lied about the reason to search the occupants of the car she and her husband were travelling in. The car had blacked out windows and initially made off when indicated to stop by the officers, in an area which was plagued by gang-related violence. If that car hadn’t have been stopped, the officers would not have been doing their job. But then they were sacked for it, and only reinstated by the Police Appeals Tribunal.
Rick Prior is a vocal supporter of these and other colleagues who are the victims of politically motivated misconduct procedures, and many colleagues are whispering that this could be one of the reasons for his suspension.
The understanding is that Mukund Krishna, the CEO of the PFEW, was responsible for suspending Prior. Krishna has never been a police officer and would have no idea of the dangers and fears which stalk the frontline copper. And it is us, the Federation members, who pay his undisclosed salary. A petition titled “Vote of No Confidence in the CEO of the Police Federation of England and Wales” has been launched. I have no doubt that many thousands will sign it, and rightly so.
The elite (and, by extension, senior police leaders) seem to think that the rank and file are always thinking in racial terms and that this governs each interaction with the public. This may have been the case when said senior leaders were young in service (and maybe they were the ones who were actually racist). But nothing could be further from the truth today. Indeed, it is the leadership’s condescending attitude to its PCs which reveals their own obsession with race.
Plus we need to acknowledge, in times such as these, that some members of the public are more than willing to racialise engagment with the police. And why wouldn’t they, with a culture that seems to view everything through the two-dimensional prism of identity? Of course, there is the added bonus that if they have done wrong, there’s a chance they could get away with it.
As officers, we can all remember occasions when something seemingly innocuous snowballed into something much more dangerous. The one that springs to mind with me is when I was very young in service (and very naïve). We were called to a seemingly run-of-the-mill road accident in north London. The occupant of one car was a white female and the occupants of the other car were young black men. It soon transpired that the car occupied by the black men had no insurance and no MOT. They were also extremely reluctant to provide any details or for us to take a closer look inside the car.
They became loudly aggressive which, as desired, brought many members of the community into the street. Despite not knowing anything of the circumstances, the crowd sided with the black men, no doubt because of their race. Everything quickly became much more chaotic, and this would have then provided the opportunity to dispense with anything illegal to possess, another useful tactic. There were initially only two of us attending this call and to be at the centre of this hostile crowd was absolutely terrifying. Eventually, we called for urgent assistance and back-up arrived, but to be at the heart of this was chilling, and could only have been worse for a single-crewed officer. Imagine, after all that, that you find you’re being suspended because you might have been racist? Rick Prior was entirely right to highlight officers’ reluctance to engage in such circumstances.
I guess this ridiculous turn of events shouldn’t really come as a surprise when you have senior leaders within the police and affiliated organisations who have been completely captured by woke ideology and live in fear of denunciation by the chattering classes. The difference with this case is that the Police Federation is meant to be the one body we can turn to when we become enmeshed in a controversy borne out of our superiors’ cowardice.
As long as I’ve been a copper, there has been a phrase in common usage among us: “the job’s f**ked”. This has been uttered whether something goes badly or well. But if the Police Federation doesn’t even allow its chairs to express concern for its officers, then it really is.
The author is a serving police officer.
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The elite (and, by extension, senior police leaders) seem to think that the rank and file are always thinking in racial terms and that this governs each interaction with the public
The heart of anti-whitism is that – according to the wokusts – “thinking in racial terms” is only a bad thing if white people do it. If a Person of Sacred Skin Colour thinks in racial terms, it is a good thing. It is even better if a Person of Sacred Skin Colour can use their racial thinking against wicked whitie. For that reason pointing out the bad effects of such thinking must be prevented. It’s all part of the ideology of anti-whitism.
I am blessed with a number of immigrant friends, from Nigeria, India, Hong Kong, the Philippines… One of the reasons they came to the UK is because they wanted to live in a country where the rule of law was upheld impartially. They would be really saddened by this article, and their sympathues would be entirely with Rick Prior, as are mine.
Wasn’t this the essence of why grooming gangs were allowed to flourish. There have been a few ex-police officers who have said exactly this in regard to various issues where ideology has prevented the administration of justice and the protection of the people. Corruption as well leading to collusion and even participation. The while shebang is rotten from the top to the bottom. Deep capture they call it.
Equality before the Law, was what I was rightly taught.
But wait, I don’t think that I can now say rightly now.
Lol.
Ahhh …. but, according to the anti-whitists, equality before the law is itself a racialist concept because (a) it was developed by white people, and (b) because it fails to take into account the inbuilt and inherited differences between racial groups. This is the reason 2TK and our anti-white government are very kind towards Muslims who break the nose of police officers, but very harsh towards wicked whities who protest about the murder of children by the Establishment’s imported people.
‘The job’s f**ked’ was a common expression when I was in as well, and now, by extension we can extend this expression to the whole country…
I recall the day back in mid summer 1997 when I got in at work one day to be told we were no longer a ‘force’ but now a ‘service’ – Went downhill from that point onwards..
I had a friend who was very interested in the subject of UFO’s. So “Unidentified Flying Objects”—-But “Unidentified” to whom? —-I was once driving home in the middle of the night, and I saw a large bright elliptical shaped object in a field. I slowed down and then pulled into the side of the road to have a closer look. I even got out of the car wondering what on earth this was, and even if it was actually of this earth. It feels daft now, but I was very nervous for the next minute until I got nearer trying to “identify” this object and realised that what I was actually seeing was the reflection of the moon on a very large puddle. —–I had “identified” it wrongly. I realised that how things appear or seem to appear is not necessarily how they are.——–I also realise that “truth” is a similar thing. ———“The Truth”, but the truth according to who?—-One man’s perception is not everyone’s. It is an individual thing. Insisting there must be some universal truth in some matters can often be an idle pursuit.
Thanks for this article
Police officers, who aren’t senior ranks, are effectively being silenced from saying it how it is and prevented from doing their job properly. Over 50 were assaulted at Notting Hill ‘carnival’ and had to pick up the pieces after the murders that occurred at this festival. These things are never mentioned by msm or the mayors office. It’ll take the murder of a police officer at nhc to begin discussions to cancel this event.
Unfortunately Senior ‘leaders’ are focussed on being offended by things rank and file say or do and seem to have a competitive outrage amongst themselves as to who can be the most offended. In this case an unelected person has suspended a police officer for telling the truth. TJF.
TJF?
The job’s f@@ked.
Oh yes. I normally spot this sort of thing instantly but I have COVID
I’ve seen police running away from BLM protestors. Obviously they aren’t doing this out of cowardice, at least not physical cowardice it is more like they are petrified by being seen in a certain way. Moral courage is of course much more rare than physical courage. And now the transformation since 2020 has been dramatic and catastrophic in terms of the type of people who are entering the country now and the desolation that this has wrought. Backward countries joke about how they don’t have to worry about their criminal classes anymore because they will just send them to Britain where they will lapped up and perhaps even indulged such are the tempations of cheap labour and higher rent for the ruling class.
The whole country is fecked.
“You cannot take any people, of any colour, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioural standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large”
Thomas Sowell
“Mukund Krishna” we give these people jobs and they immediately apply their own racist behaviours and weird ideologies against us.
You know at one point I could see why some diversity was necessary and yes there are some examples of worthy minorities in public office but I’m now leaning more towards a “hard no” on any minority or any DEI hire being allowed anywhere near any kind of public service role.
Sorry but there it is.
I am in complete agreement with “hard no.”
I’m afraid my respect for the police went out of the window during the scamdemic especially when they started “taking the knee” and were very aggressive during the protest marches.
Nigel Farage is the only figure the woke establishment fear. RatNest, anyone?. He needs to get this guys name out there. People will listen to him.
Two family member were in the police. Both made it to Sargent level. One had previously been in the navy. They both resigned mostly due to unreasonable demands from above and lack of support. Happy in their new jobs!
The Police Force has become so politicized it cannot function as an independent trustworthy and balance enforcer of laws. There should be no arbitrary decisions about when and if a law should be enforced. Civil society requires this to function. In many countries the Police report to Departments of Justice, not politicians. Perhaps it is time to rethink the role of the police and who should be controlling them.
The problem is if the rank and file aren’t allowed to do their jobs without fear or favour, there will be a rise in vigilantism as more people seek other means of justice, when their local bobbies hands are tied.