A police whistleblower has finally revealed to the public what most of us who have worked in policing have suspected for a long time: that white officers (or potential officers) are being discriminated against in hiring policy, as senior managers continue to worship at the altar of diversity.
West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is currently preventing white candidates from applying as recruits to its constable entry programmes, the Telegraph reported this week. However, candidates from ‘under-represented’ groups can lodge their applications early and be safely shuffled along to the next stage of the recruitment process.
The discrimination is about as blatant as could be. Black and far east Asian candidates are provided with a ‘gold’ ranking, those of south-east Asian origin are ‘silver’, whereas white applicants are ‘bronze’ (interestingly, this includes candidates from under-represented Irish and eastern European backgrounds, but that doesn’t seem to matter so much).
I’ve written previously that it’s not the job of the police to get themselves involved in any form of social justice strategy, no matter how well intentioned. Their primary duties are to enforce laws impartially, maintain order and ensure public safety, devoid of external influences or political biases. Initiatives such as this risk alienating the police from the public at a time when confidence in the institution is already at an all-time low.
Yes, advocates of this racial tweaking will argue that it simply provides WYP with the opportunity to attract talent from a varied pool of applicants. And indeed, the force’s own website helpfully explains what so-called ‘positive action’ is and how it complies with the Equality Act 2010. Pressed on the issue this week, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was also of the opinion that WYP has complied with the guidelines of His Majesty’s Inspectorate.
Etc, etc, etc. If the entire system is soaked in this stuff, of course this programme will comply with policy and law. How else can anti-white racism be explained away?
It is a common refrain in modern policing that we should have a force which ‘reflects the community it serves’. This is never questioned and is uttered as a universal truth. But why? Why does the ethnicity of an officer have to be same as that of a victim of crime? Surely that’s a whole lot less important than an officer’s ability to investigate an offence and engage with the victim in a professional, sensitive manner? Well, apparently not, according to West Yorkshire Police.
In my career I never met a member of the public who said the most important thing was that the officers they engage with had to look like them. In fact, it didn’t feature at all, and it’s patronising to suggest that it is uppermost in the minds of people from minority communities. On some occasions, it is positively advantageous for officers to be of a different background when engaging with members of the public. When I worked with some communities, many would prefer to engage with me rather than a colleague of a different sect of their religion. Again, assuming that any community other than the indigenous one is a homogenous entity smacks of denigration and ignorance. Clearly, they haven’t thought it through. But I guess it is never about doing what’s right; more signalling one’s virtue.
When the WYP whistleblower originally raised concerns internally with senior management, they were warned off by supervisors. A few years ago in the Met Police, I was made aware of an alleged difference in pass mark requirements for BAME and white candidates at one stage of the sergeant to inspector promotion process. A scandal that needed to be brought to wider attention, one might think. Instead, another colleague concerned about this unequal process was subsequently threatened and advised not to make waves. And make no mistake: similar things will be happening across the country for all police processes, whether that be recruitment, promotion or lateral progression. The organisation is saturated with woke dogma, dripping down from senior leaders who are desperate to appeal to the chattering classes.
Aside from the moral shortcomings of WYP’s diversity programme, it could also have significant security implications. Police forces nationwide shout from the rooftops about the proportion of BAME recruits being successfully enrolled. Numbers and percentages are declared like Soviet tractor production figures. But they’re much more reticent to publish the disciplinary and misconduct statistics which result from this lack of diligence in the vetting procedures.
In fact, rather than rethink these lax police hiring processes for ethnic minorities, the National Police Chiefs’ Council is now looking at the disproportionate negative outcomes for those officers from ‘under-represented’ communities who fall foul of the disciplinary process. If an inadequately vetted officer crosses a disciplinary or criminal line, it can still be put down to some vague institutional ‘ism’. This is despite a key finding of a 2019 NPCC report into BAME misconduct cases being that a “BAME officer’s misconduct investigation and the final outcome is significantly more likely to result in low level or no sanction outcomes than their white colleagues”. Far from there being institutional bias against ethnic minority officers, it’s actually easier to sack a white officer than one from a minority background.
Whichever way you go in this maze of politically correct confusion, you come across further dead ends. Not only are such practices unprofessional, they are potentially dangerous for public safety. It also means yet further negative publicity for the police. In a force disproportionately at fault for by the rape gangs scandal as West Yorkshire has been, do they really need it right now?
Paul Birch is a retired police officer who spent 24 years in the Metropolitan Police, 16 of which in counter-terrorism. You can watch his recent interview with the Sceptic here, and subscribe to his Substack here.
Stop Press: Police officers at one of Britain’s biggest forces – Thames Valley – are being taught they have “white privilege”. The force has introduced “equity training”, covering topics such as “white privilege”, “micro-aggressions” and the difference between being “non-racist versus anti-racist”. The Telegraph has more.
Stop Press 2: Bosses could be forced to justify anti-white hiring practices via a complaints system for people who miss out on jobs because of ‘positive action’ under plans proposed by Conservative peers as an amendment to Angela Rayner’s Employment Rights Bill.
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“The long overdue correction of Western democracies is now in train. The slow and painful process of restoring trust in public institutions might just have begun.”
Not true of the U.K.
The only slight cause for optimism is the impending destruction of the Tory party and their potential replacement with a actually conservative political force- but this is by no means certain.
Absolutely first class commentary on the state of the Western world today. In this country if Kneel does achieve the anticipated landslide our real battles will come over the next five years and if that is the case these five years will be shit or bust.
“The old Left-Right divide has become obsolete. Instead, the new divide is between the international technocratic elite in alliance with national elites against the interests, values and policy preferences of national populations.”
Or, in hux speak the Davos Deviants and their regional managers who make up the political executive along with the First Division Association. On top of this conglomerate of useless grifters are the largely corrupt judiciary, the management army of the NHS and our police forces.
It can only be a matter of time before the real battles begin. Sadly, I believe that blood will be spilled.
In 2017, Labour under their, supposedly, unelectable leader, Jeremy Corbyn won 40% of the vote. Under Starmer they’re about to win a landslide with 36%-38%.
Something’s wrong in the deepstate.
There’s something wrong with the notion that a ‘voter’ is someone whose only political right is to select his preferred party and that parties ought to be represented in partylament in proportion to their share of the popular vote. That’s not how the British system works and hence, such percentages are meaningless. In the UK, voters elect MPs for their contituencies. They don’t vote for parties.
So who elects the government?
As a British politician once famously put it: The purpose of the NATO is to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down. I, for one, would welcome an end to this charade. The ‘public institutions’ which claimed to protect democracy and human rights by abolishment of human society and vaccine and mask mandates are thoroughly bankrupt and this includes the political system which begat them.
At the height of the Corona madness, at least one democratic (ie, from the US party) politician went on record with stating that ‘human rights’ never meant to include the right to breathe freely and to talk to and otherwise socialise with other humans as one see fit as humans, who are notoriously nothing but carriers of highly dangerous pathogens, simply couldn’t be allowed to do that for their own safety and such is the nature of these people, may they meanwhile all again have eaten a lot of chalk to soften their hideously croaking voices.
The ‘western’ mock-democracy willingly killed itself when the WHO demanded that in 2020.
Great article. I would however challenge the claim of “Islamophobia” – what does this even mean? It is an often used slur against anyone raising reasonable criticism of the encroaching march of theocracy and/or the denial of terrible crimes committed in the majority by members of one particular religion due to “cultural sensitivity”. For example the still ongoing “grooming gangs” situation throughout the country, although that should be called what it is – paedophile rape and slavery gangs.
https://x.com/TheCriticMag/status/1747540137129423263?s=19
The link leads to an article in the Critic (from January this year) which basically seeks to exploit the situation as feminist propaganda for the “war on women” story. That’s exceedingly poor taste as the Rotherham authorities who remained intentionally blind to this certainly included both men and women and the elephant in the room is not that the abusers weren’t investigate by men because they were also men but weren’t investigated by all kinds of officials because they were muslims of Pakistani origin and it was desired to avoid possible accusations of racism.
Poor taste is actually way too mildly put. This is not a (All) men seek to rape female children!! story. It’s one about muslim gangs getting a free pass from communal authorities.
The people we should be worrying about are the traitorous izlamoPHILES: queer starmer, ed davey, greens, and red tories who indignantly huff & puff if anyone dares to point out that izlam has 50+ countries it captured and we needn’t think our country exempt from that fearful outcome.
liblabcon treachery against the rightful people of this country knows no bounds and manifests itself in its most dangerous form as a 75-year-long mass importation of an alien death cult that anyone with a smattering of history knows has world domination as its aim either by conquering countries with swords or conquering them by outbreeding the natives.
smarmer has recently been poncing in and out of various muzlim ghettoes reassuring them that he as PM will protect their rights. He doesn’t give a flying f*** about the rights of British people to their own homeland untainted by the 7thC AD savagery of izlam.
He also promised them that he will ensure that they feel ‘safe, secure, protected’. Bugger the Brits, then, they will just have to put up with jihadis, terrorism, proliferation of mosques and the loud wailing therefrom, tales of blatant misogyny in sharia courts, honour killings, muzlims telling off Brits for eating when it’s their ramadamadingdong, plus the numerous other delights that disgust us such as the cruel halal killing of animals in defiance of our animal welfare laws.
Never forgetting the mass gang-rapes of hundreds of thousands of young British girls by paedophile muzlims, which smarmer as DPP 2008-2013 certainly knew about, but did NOTHING about. Unforgivable and Unforgiven.
Anyone who hasn’t a phobia concerning izlam is an ignorant fool. The ignorant fools are about to form another government.
Nick Robinson has always been, is now, and will always be a first class tosser with a leaky brain.
‘Sunday roast with all the trimmings’ is a very stupid way to characterise a person and invites the obvious riposte of characterising Robinson as food.
Imagine a cheap ready meal well past its sell-by date left to fester in a faulty fridge until the plastic film begins to bloat and swell. One prick off a fork and there is a puff of noxious air that turns the stomach. Anyone unwise enough to unwrap it to have a peek instead of hoying it straight in the bin will turn green and perform some projectile-vomiting.
Yes, Farage as food is very wholesome compared to a sickening BBC leftard hack.