So, How's That 'Diversity In Policing' Drive Going?
A police officer who was ordered to sign the sexual offenders register after admitting voyeurism offences has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police.
Irshad Kamal, 46, of Bramfield Road, Wandsworth, was a serving officer in Merton when he was charged with three counts of voyeurism after secretly filming hundreds of encounters with prostitutes.
Pc Rytis Gilys, who had served in Newham for six years, was found guilty of one count of sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court and sentenced to six months imprisonment in April. He was dismissed from duty without notice at a misconduct hearing on Thursday.
The 33-year-old had already been deported to Lithuania after serving less than six months in prison and did not attend the hearing...
Hmmm. Not so well, then?
How the dickens is a Lithuanian able to serve in the police? I thought they had to be British, even if only by naturalisation?
ReplyDeleteThis was set to be a problem ever since Plantation owners stopped buying them.
ReplyDeleteAlways seemed a bit pointless to me, voyeurism. Better to get on with the job, plenty of wimmin.
ReplyDeleteJulia keep an eye out for the sex pest one. This won't be his last appearance in the news I think.
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Read about the 'Rampart Scandal', a positive discrim policy that nearly destroyed LA police in the 90s.
ReplyDeleteThe Lithuanian got the nod because someone thought his verbal application suggested he was from Leith, for as you know those people are called Leithuanian.
ReplyDeletePC Rytis Gilys may have been sufficiently desperate as to have filmed Jaded in flagrante delicto; posting the carnal episode on Youtube. No worries, Jaded, I will definitely give that a miss.
ReplyDeleteOr does Jaded have 'inside information' on her other work chum, PC Aidan Thompson, who was caught on TK Maxx security cameras secretly filming up the skirts of teenage girls? PC Thompson also stockpiled films of women undressing in the changing rooms and toilets of an Essex police station.
Not making excuses (I firmly believe bent coppers should be paraded through the town in a tumbrel before being tarred and feathered) but with the number of Police, CSOs and Police Staff, there are bound to be some dodgy ones amongst them. It's the same with teachers, lawyers - especially lawyers - radio and TV personalities. There's just so many of 'em they can't all be angels. The recruitment of a Lithuanian is just one of the EU charged diversity programmes introduced over the past 10 years or so. My old force had an Iranian and a Lebanese in their ranks just before I retired. No idea whether they are still there, but wouldn't be surprised if at least one of 'em was a Divisional Chief.
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Penseivat,
ReplyDeleteI don't go along with the "drawn from the public, therefore bound to be some that are dodgy" excuse. I've done a bit of recruiting for jobs that didn't require the level of honesty, diligence and competance required for the police. I did it without the help of HR, but with people who were better judges of character than me and managed to get really good staff. On the rare occasion that a dodgy one sneaked in, they were soon weeded out. However, I was lucky, I didn't have any diversity quotas to fill.
Northish,
ReplyDeleteI can see your point of view, but were you talking of organisations which, nationwide, employed hundreds of thousands? Even if you assume that one in two thousand will commit a criminal act, be a sexual deviant, or behave inappropriately, then that leaves a fair number of 'dodgy' people, men, women, gay or LGBT (these days you have to include all gender types to avoid accusations of sexism - blame the SJW diversity Nazis for that). There will always be some that escape the net - just look at the number of 'dodgy' political masters we have in Parliament and that's a comparatively low number. Meanwhile, have checked on eBay and I can't find a tumbrel anywhere!
"How the dickens is a Lithuanian able to serve in the police? I thought they had to be British, even if only by naturalisation?"
ReplyDeleteI wondered that too. But clearly, you just need to be an EU citizen. Hopefully, Brexit will fix this.
"Julia keep an eye out for the sex pest one. This won't be his last appearance in the news I think."
Oh, I don't doubt it!
" I did it without the help of HR..."
That's why it worked so well, Northish... ;)
I have yet to see evidence that the public are better served by police who reflect the ethnic diversity of the local community. Competence and commitment seem to be much more important qualities. This diversity nonsense is nothing more than political dogma. The targets are illusory and will never be achieved.
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