The ‘cash strapped’ Metropolitan Police is to spend a whopping £5.2 million a year on employing 64 diversity staff, despite paring its front line services to the bone.
Half its mounted officers are facing the axe to help the force shrink its £260 million debt, yet Britain’s biggest police force Is committed to expanding its ‘woke’ workforce according to data exclusively obtained by the Mail On Sunday newspaper under a Freedom of Information request.
Forensics and historical crime teams are also facing cuts, and station front-counter opening times could be reduced.
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They report: The document also reveals the mind-boggling array of inclusivity projects in the force.
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Susan Hall, the Conservative group leader on the London Assembly, raged: ‘This is the stuff of absolute wokery, it’s just too nonsensical for words.
‘All we want is for police officers to do their job not worry about Tsunami Week.’
And Reform MP Lee Anderson said: ‘Diversity shouldn’t matter. What matters is competence, efficiency, and keeping the public safe.
‘Your race or religion is irrelevant. The Met Police used to be taken seriously. Now their priorities have shifted from fighting crime to funding diversity departments and closing stations to pay for them.’
Scotland Yard is currently advertising for two ‘life events delivery managers’ on £47,000 a year. One will help parents find a good work-life balance, while the other will aid staff with disabilities and neurodivergent conditions. Both roles are based in Kilburn, where the local police station closed its front counter to the public in 2017.
William Yarwood of the TaxPayers’ Alliance called on the Met to ‘scrap the gimmicks and get back to basics’.
He said: ‘It’s staggering that while Londoners are seeing stations shut and frontline police services cut, the Met still finds millions to bankroll a sprawling diversity bureaucracy.
‘Taxpayers expect bobbies on the beat, not endless networks, awareness weeks and “life event” managers.’
The Met currently spends £3.2million on posts in its Culture Diversity and Inclusion Unit, which will rise to £5.2million once all current vacancies are filled.
And the force conceded: ‘This does not include any other posts that may lead or be involved in DEI related activity across other business areas in the Met.’
