Sussex’s police chief has called on forces nationally to improve the way they treat gay and transgender officers and to root out sexual prejudice in their ranks.
Blimey, couldn’t they just concentrate on being better policemen & women?
Mr York, who joined Sussex Police in 2008, questioned why so many officers felt they could not ‘come out’ at work and said police were “not balanced yet” on the issue.
Really? Because later on, the article says:
Sussex Police said about 5% (266 people) of its 5,800 staff and officers identified themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual in the latest report …
Which rather nicely mirrors the percentage of the general population, surely? So what’s the issue again?
He urged delegates at the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales (PSA) to understand what it feels like to be an “other” in society and “once you have got it personally, drive it organisationally”.
What on
earth does that even
mean..?!
Mr York said gay communities had historically been “hounded” by the policing of public sex environments, adding: “We still have prejudices today and I think the learning we need to do on this is how we don’t let them boil through into discriminatory behaviour.”
Newsflash, chum: I don’t want to walk into a public toilet and see
heterosexual couples making the beast with two backs either!
7 comments:
Mr York is obviously thinking of his retirement, and his K...
Proper coppers (of the Jack Regan & Sgt Carter variety) would be feeling villains' collars - and not exactly "touchy-feely", either.
The 'progressive liberals' have a hell of a lot to answer for. If only for their hijacking of the word 'progressive' which subtly suggests that opposition to their policies & viewpoints is old-fashioned, reactionary and an anachronism.
Presumably he is in the closet and is afraid of what will happen if it is found out - moving in the 'best' circles may stop.
As you say, there are many much more important things they should be thinking about - how to effectively deal with travellers, how to crack down on paki muslim men abusing girls would be a start but the list appear to be endless.
I really did prefer the police when they were a bunch of unreconstructed hard-nuts who hated criminals and loved fucking them up. This current crop, a whiny bunch of Social Policy graduates, are as despised by the law-abiding as they are by the bad lads.
...public sex environments...
I first heard this term about 20 years ago. I saw a notice of a 'gay policing liaison meeting' or some such and, having no life, thought I'd troll along to see what what it was all about. I was the only member of the public there, probably because it seemed that every other gay man in the area was 'employed' courtesy of the taxpayer in the diversity-perversity complex.
The atmosphere that evening was moist not just with sibilants but countless acronyms, of which PSE was the most common. I objected strongly to use of this euphemism: even though policing has been heavy-handed and historically brutal in some cases, I thought what was being sought was the creation by stealth of what would eventually become no-go areas for the police (and the public at large). That had already happened in regard to other minorities, I detested it, and didn't want it done in 'my name'. I didn't expect to make any new friends that night, but neither did I expect that the police would so happily acquiesce in making their own job all but impossible.
"Understand what it feels like to be an “other” in society"
What makes the LGBT mob think they are a special case? I was a motorcyclist for many years, and still remember how it felt to be barred from a pub, simply because I was wearing a leather jacket...
ÜÜ Mr York said gay communities had historically been “hounded” ÜÜ
"Hounded"???
I thought the phrase was "DOGGED"... (Declination from "Dogging.")
"I am dogged, I am going home for a bit of kip."
(What when you wake up? Are you "Kippered?")
"Mr York is obviously thinking of his retirement, and his K..."
Indeed so.
"I really did prefer the police when they were a bunch of unreconstructed hard-nuts who hated criminals and loved fucking them up."
As did everyone else, hence the popularity of 'Life On Mars'!
"...I thought what was being sought was the creation by stealth of what would eventually become no-go areas for the police (and the public at large). "
And you weren't wrong... :/
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