This is wonderfully diverse and multicultural and all that. “Panel member Roger Grasby said the force had seen some success in boosting the number of staff who were female, disabled or lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) but ‘less so with BAME,'” that is, black and minority ethnic people.
Now wait a minute. “Disabled” police officers? Certainly disabled people can accomplish a great deal — look at Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Greg Abbott, or Jim Abbott, for that matter — but if you’re being mugged in London, do you really want the police officer chasing the perpetrators in a wheelchair? Will you feel glad in that case, as the muggers slip away out of sight, that your police department is so “diverse”?
I have a radical idea — so radical that I am sure it will not be rejected out of hand by the West Yorkshire Police, but only because it’s so radical, so extreme, that the West Yorkshire Police would never even dare to consider it. Here it is: why not hire police officers based on merit alone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference and orientation, etc.? Why not make police forces completely dedicated solely to protecting the populace, and not laboratories for social engineering?
That will never happen, but if it did, crime would actually go down, because competent, capable police officers would be on the job, rather than ones chosen because of their sex, or race, or how many times a day they say “Allahu akbar.” In such a scenario, people like Mohamed Noor would never be on a police force, anywhere. Would that be so terrible? Wouldn’t it be better at least for Justine Damond?
Instead, we will get more new uniforms. The burqa uniform is coming, and it will be a wonder to behold. And I look forward to seeing the new uniform for nudist female police officers. After all, aren’t nudists an “underrepresented group”?
Britain is, as we all know, finished. Unless things turn around on a large scale, and quickly.
“Police force unveils more modest uniform for female Muslim officers with a looser tunic as part of a drive to recruit more recruits from ethnic minorities,” by Sebastian Murphy-Bates, Mailonline, September 17, 2018:
A police force has created a less revealing uniform for Muslim women which is ‘designed not to show the female form’.
West Yorkshire Police hopes that the looser fit will result in more ethnic minority recruits.
Many forces already allow female officers to wear the hijab, or headscarf, but the new uniform is believed to be a UK first.
Assistant Chief Constable Angela Williams said: ‘For the last month we have been trialling a new uniform for women which is designed not to show the female form.
‘This was suggested by a Muslim female officer and was designed by our Clothing Manager in conjunction with the officer.
‘The tunic is a looser and longer fit, and has full sleeves. This has been well-received from officers in the force and we have now made further supplies of this uniform for other officers to trial it if they wish.
‘I hope this uniform will encourage people from underrepresented groups to consider a career in policing if they had previously been put off joining the force due to the uniform.
‘We are open to suggestions from all communities on how our uniform can be styled to better suit their needs.’
Pc Firzana Ahmed became the first to wear the new kit and says it has brought ‘positive feedback from the local community’ in Bradford.
West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel had quizzed police chiefs on Friday about what they were doing to boost the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) recruits.
Chief Constable Dee Collins said for some women, concerns about the existing uniform’s design could be preventing them from signing up.
Panel member Roger Grasby said the force had seen some success in boosting the number of staff who were female, disabled or lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) but ‘less so with BAME’….