Avon & Somerset Police - Its okay for our officers to be racis

Avon & Somerset Police have a clear policy regarding equality within their own ranks, its there in black & white on their own website. All officers are given training on how to deal with internal matters of unfair treatment against fellow officers so, there should be no problem... Right!

Wrong,


A Police officer from the Bristol district training department was reported to the chief officer by the National Black Police Associaton as being racist. The complaint was that the training officer since 2001 had taken every ethnic officer on that district too an internal hearing with a view to them being dismissed from the force with, little or no grounds at all. This same officer was reported to have attempted to encourage officers to resign before any hearing took place.

The Police federation of England & Wales were involved in several cases and in some cases got the the allegations, usually about performance, dropped before any hearing due to lack of evidence.

The force claimed to have carried out an investigation into these allegations however, nothing was done. The officer in question remains to this day in the same job.

Avon & Somerset Police - Its okay for our officers to be racist.

Its acceptable that regardless of race, some people are not cut out for the challenges of a Police career however, most ethnic officers that join this particular force are posted to the central district as, this is the location of the ethnic communities in Bristol. When all ethnic officers are taken to a hearing by the same training officer and the BPA and Police federation report a problem then, the force cannot dismiss this as being suspicious.

We are currently Investigating a case where a black Bristol Police officer has been forced to resign over racist incidents and the matter is now in the hands of the Tribunal Service, this officer was subjected to several of these so called hearings. The force has denied to the tribunal service that any of these hearings took place and that any incidents of racism occurred or were even reported by this officer.

However,

The NPA and the Police federation were involved in these matters at the time they took place, documents relating to these incidents and hearings have been released and we are now investigating these incidents along with what does appear to be, a Police force being completely untruthful with the courts system in order to protect their own reputation.

When our investigation concludes if it is found that Avon & Somerset constabulary have been untruthful in reporting unlawful events which has led to the resignation of a Police Officer then, along with our partners in the media, we will support a civil hearing on behalf of the victim.

If the Police does not challenge racism then, we will challenge the Police



"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein

Link to Source: Bobbywatch.co.uk