Senior officers in West Yorkshire Police – the force recently in the news for blocking white job applicants – intervened to ensure that an ethnic minority candidate who failed her interview was given the job, according to leaked documents seen by the Telegraph.
The female officer was initially rejected but eventually given a post after her case was taken up by the force’s chief officer team, which includes Chief Constable John Robins.
To get around her failure, West Yorkshire Police then scrapped interviews for officers transferring to the force, the documents show.
The move will increase pressure on the force, one of the UK’s largest, which has already been accused of prioritising ethnic minority candidates with “appalling racist hiring” practices.
West Yorkshire Police used the policy change to offer jobs to six other ethnic minority officers who had failed their interviews or had been rejected from shortlists in the previous eight months.
Eight white officers who had been rejected at the interview stage were also offered jobs as a consequence.
One email seen by the Telegraph shows that the female candidate was allowed to join before pre-employment checks were carried out on the orders of the chief officer team.
A senior officer involved in recruitment made an official complaint to the police watchdog.
An insider told the Telegraph: “West Yorkshire Police has lost the plot in becoming obsessed by race. It can’t be right that officers who failed interviews were then given jobs.”
But West Yorkshire Police said a complaint that the police constable had been “given favourable treatment” had been investigated “thoroughly” and no evidence had been found to support the allegations.
The force is under scrutiny after the Telegraph first disclosed that white British applicants are being temporarily blocked from jobs as new recruits to boost diversity.
A whistleblower complained to this newspaper that white candidates were being discriminated against illegally to increase the proportion of officers from under-represented groups, a claim the force denies.
Last month, Chief Constable Robins said that he stood by previous comments where he said that he wanted discrimination against white candidates to be legal.
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Sack Robins and forfeit his pension.
Absolutely. He is an utter disgrace.
The anti-whitists are in full flood now. They obviously think they’re going to win, and that their beloved non-whites really will displace the native peoples of our islands.
“[John Robins] said that he wanted discrimination against white candidates to be legal.”
So, I believe I see a possible solution to the problem of the Great White Sitting Chief Constable.
Reinterview him and use his own ideas against him.
This Robbins character is typical of the utter garbage that somehow gets to the top in public services. There will be thousands of these arseholes cluttering and fouling the working environments for millions of employees.
Robbins is no use to man nor beast.
There may be certain species who could feast on his carcass; otherwise, I agree
Dung beetles?
Thanks H.
I really can’t disagree with this. This is what I thought of the police senior leadership. I never hid my contempt of them, so it’s a miracle I got to retirement, but does explain why I got no higher than sergeant.
Brilliant!
It appears Yorkshire police forces dislike the white race, wasn’t it south Yorkshire that were responsible for the cover up of the Rape gangs? what’s going on up there?
Can we be confident the police, staffed with their ranks of the suboptimal, will not be more likely to prosecute white people to get conviction statistics looking pretty. And then will the judiciary will harsher on the sentencing of white people.
“One email seen by the Telegraph shows that the female candidate was allowed to join BEFORE PRE-EMPLOYMENT CHECKS were carried out on the orders of the chief officer team.”
So something in her “Pre-employment checks” made her unfit to be a police officer, which is the real reason she failed. Was she found to be a security risk, due to previous criminal activity or links with terrorism?
She was only given the job after a senior recruit official made a complaint to the police watchdog. Who was that official, we wonder?