Rick Prior, the head of the Metropolitan Police Federation, who represented 30,000 officers in the capital, has been sacked after warning last year that members were concerned about being labelled racist. The Telegraph has the story.
The head of the Metropolitan Police Federation has been sacked after speaking to the Telegraph.
Rick Prior, who represented 30,000 officers in the capital, was suspended last year after warning that members were concerned about being labelled racist.
He challenged his suspension in the courts but after giving an interview to the Telegraph to raise awareness and crowdfund for his case, he has now been formally dismissed and banned from ever standing for election again.
The officer, who has more than 30 years of service with the Metropolitan Police, including working in royalty protection, claimed he would have received fairer treatment from the regime in North Korea.
The case began last October when Mr Prior, who was democratically elected to represent rank and file officers in London, gave a television interview warning that his members were becoming increasingly nervous about challenging people from ethnic minority communities.
In the interview, with GB News, Mr Prior said: “There’s a striking crisis of confidence at the moment within policing in general and certainly within the Metropolitan Police, whereby officers are withdrawing from any kind of proactive policing for fear of falling foul of the IOPC [Independent Office of Police Conduct], or a vexatious or malicious complaint.”
His comments reflected what he said was a growing unease among officers to use force and came in the wake of a string of high-profile incidents including the conviction of one constable who challenged a woman for refusing to show a valid bus ticket.
A Metropolitan Police officer was fined £1,500 for assault after wrongly arresting a woman for bus fare evasion in Croydon. His conviction was then quashed on appeal.
Mr Prior warned that such incidents were eroding the confidence of his members.
He explained: “There seems to be an assumption of racism right from the off, particularly when it’s a white officer and a member of the public from a minority ethnic community and it almost seems as if the onus is then on the police officer to prove that the interaction wasn’t racist.”
But the day after Mr Prior’s interview was broadcast he was suspended by the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) for allegedly making comments that were “discriminatory in nature”.
The Metropolitan Police’s own Department of Professional Standards assessed the comments and swiftly concluded they did not amount to misconduct.
Mr Prior vowed to fight his suspension insisting it was a fundamental free speech issue.
But because it was his own staff association that was taking action against him, they would not fund any legal advice or action in support of his defence.
Last month he gave an interview to the Telegraph to raise awareness of his case and appeal for financial assistance to continue his fight.
But on Thursday after a hastily convened panel at Police Federation headquarters he was dismissed from his elected post and banned from ever standing again.
Toby, speaking as General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, told the Telegraph:
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the process Rick has been put through, from suspension to expulsion, has been designed to stop him from running in the forthcoming Police Federation elections. It’s the kind of chicanery you’d expect in student politics, not the representative body for police officers.
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“Because it was his own staff association that was taking action against him, they would not fund any legal advice or action in support of his defence…“
…Straight out of the Franz Kafka playbook diligently followed by yet another captured institution – Add the Police Federation to the long list of unions and professional bodies adept at representing themselves, but less inclined to represent their members.
The irony is that I’d bet good money they wouldn’t have sacked him if he’d not been white. I know that had he been ‘BAME’ he’d hardly have been likely to have made these comments in the first place but it’s now abundantly clear that as long as the racism is geared towards white people ( by coloured people or other whites, shamefully ) then it’s all good, because nowadays it’s repackaged as ”positive discrimination” most of the time, and that’s acceptable, according to Clown World logic. But whistleblowers/dissidents must be quashed and silenced at all costs. A tale as old as time.
It would be remiss of me not to conclude that the little khant’s brown fingers are all over this. And the envelopes too.
I think the Khant would ethnically cleanse London of white people if he could.
That’s in train isn’t it?
Absolutely.
Sir Knife Crime is doing a pretty good job of it anyway.
Banned from standing is the crucial point here. They don’t dare let the members decide whether what he did or said merits dismissal. I’m sure whoever made this decision claims to believe in “democracy”.
The members should leave the federation.
I think we all know what ”anti-racist” is code for nowadays, don’t we?
”£60k for an “Anti-Racist Practice Lead” at Norfolk County Council.
As a Norfolk MP, I am calling on @NorfolkCC
to dump this poisonous role.
End the ideological rot and focus on delivering efficient services for my constituents.
We don’t want, or need, this political garbage.”
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1915700901353840667
If only he could lead Reform but then that is Nigel Farage Limited which has just taken cash from a former Tory funder who is a Nigerian born Lebanese muslim. Talk about shitting on your support base.
All roads lead to Marxism in today’s woketastic Clown World, and there appears to be little available in the way of an antidote;
”Europe has genuflected to Islam while America has bent the knee to multiculturalism; both are arguably the same. The engine is Marxism, and we’re seeing that what can’t be won at the ballot box is doing amazingly well in the streets and growing in power and acceptance in our courts.
Marxism is more than a textbook definition; it is an always morphing state of mind with only one defining quality: the subservience of the individual to the State and/or an authoritarian that knows best. Whether people call themselves progressive, leftist, anarchist, socialist, or communist, among other names, all are ideologies that seek to control people through whatever narrative serves them best.
Today, that narrative is multiculturalism, a cultural reworking of economic Marxism. The goal is to restrict individuals’ ability to think and act in their best interest in favor of the imperial “they,” with few knowing who actually pulls the strings (visualize Biden’s Trojan Horse presidency).
The connective tissue of multiculturalism uniformly weaves a misleading tale of caring for the downtrodden and those who, for whatever reason, aren’t enjoying being part of a country of free and self-reliant people. Part of that connective tissue is incipient hatred for the successful, especially independent thinkers and entrepreneurs. We see this vividly play out in violent and illogical demonstrations on our campuses and streets by uneducated young people led by professional agitators.
The beauty of the left’s hatred is that it never has to be based on provable truths; it just must be believed, much like any other religion that demands faith over provable fact. While not a religion per se, it takes on many of the same trappings, fooling weak and uneducated minds with popular narratives in place of actual knowledge and truth.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/multiculturalism_s_marxist_roots.html
So, there you have it folks…
Not even trying to hide it any longer
So it reduces to the Police Federation Boss being sacked after having the courage to tell the truth that is, in any case, clear for all to see. British society, employers, institutions, as well as Policing, are rife with precisely the dynamic that he so well describes.
If you live in a British city and you aren’t concerned about self-defence ten you are ignoring reality. The use of knives has increased dramatically and will increase a lot more in the near future. Different mindset when you have to assume that everyone is tooled up.
Through a present red wine haze I seem to remember in the run up to my retirement from the Met a whispering campaign to set up an alternative to the Met Federation.
There are two main reasons to join the Federation; legal representation should the sh1t hit the fan, and secondly for some of the financial benefits that come with membership (discounts at certain retailers, investment plans, and such like).
Were I still in the Job, I would absolutely consider that alternative because I wouldn’t want to send another penny to the ar5ehole5 at the official Federation.
Who actually sacked him?
Did all of the members hold a ballot?
As I understand it, the “rank and file”members like and support Mr Prior and they had no say in the decision to sack him, are they wrong?
Perhaps the 30,000 members could grow a backbone and withdraw their membership and subs?
The Federation should represent its members so the Federation should support whoever is elected by the members, and not ban someone from running for election.
Unless they are not interested in representing their members and are pushing an ideology.
Every institution is captured. This is the danger of consolidating great power into the hands of a few. For the weak, offices of governance is a draw to power they would be incapable of achieving on their own merits alone. The solution is for freedom loving people to contest appointment to these offices and drive the scumbags out.