UK: Metropolitan Police Recruiting ‘Functionally Illiterate’ Officers To Meet Diversity Quotas

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It has been revealed that London’s Metropolitan Police are recruiting officers who are illiterate, can barely write English, and who may even have a criminal record in order to meet diversity quotas.

Promises to have 40% of the force represented by ethnic minorities by 2023, fell short, with only 17% of officers being from ‘diverse’ backgrounds.

Matt Parr, the head of the organization responsible for inspecting British police forces, said it would be “clearly wrong” for the force to be an “overwhelmingly white police force”.

Summit News reports: Parr told the Telegraph that London, “which will likely be a minority white city in the next decade or so, should not be policed by an overwhelmingly white police force.”

In addition to the optics of a largely white police force being wrong, Parr said it was also, “operationally wrong, because it means that the Met does not get insight into some of the communities it polices and that has caused problems in the past. So we completely support the drive to make the Met much more representative of the community it serves than it is at the moment.”

That drive has however led to officers being hired who struggle to even write up basic crime reports.

“They are taking in significant numbers of people who are, on paper at least, functionally illiterate in English,” said Parr, adding that the Met was “recruiting the wrong people” and that the diversity push had “lowered standards.”

However, Parr also noted that it was a good thing that the Met was “taking a risk” by hiring young black men who may have criminal records.

David Spencer, the head of the think tank Policy Exchange and a former Metropolitan Police officer, said that the diversity drive had lowered standards.

5 Comments

  1. I hate to say it but the cops in the western world at least have always been crooked. Always.
    They’ve always just worked for the bosses of organised crime and many didn’t even know it
    Nothing is what it seems.
    Never get caught is their only Commandment.

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