A whistleblower has blasted Greater Manchester Police for encouraging people with little English and no GCSEs to apply through a diversity campaign.
A former police recruiter from one of Britain’s biggest police forces has said its ‘Positive Action Team’ was told to go out in public to recruit people, regardless of language ability or qualifications.
They told TalkTV: ‘It didn’t matter if they couldn’t speak English or had never sat an exam – it was all about getting ticks in boxes.
‘If you got 40 names in a day, the bosses would say, “Great!’
They added that the team —which had around five or six full-time staff members —’would focus heavily on Muslim communities across Manchester’.
Staff were not explicitly directed to target Muslim people – but the whistleblower said ‘it was obvious from where we were sent’.
They added: ‘We were told: “Get down to Lidl in Rusholme today and get as many details as you can.”
The force would also host workshops at the weekend to give candidates from an ethnic minority background help with applications – but ‘only a very, very slim number’ of those who signed up after outreach made it, the whistleblower added.
Of new Greater Manchester Police (GMP) recruits, 47 percent are women and 15.9 percent are from diverse ethnic communities, according to a force report from 2022.
It is understood that the recruitment drives outside supermarkets stopped around a year ago.
GMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson has previously said: ‘Positive action here extends to proactively reaching out to groups and encouraging them to join. But we have single windows.
‘Everybody’s entitled to apply at the same time. They’re all put through the same process. We choose the best people. And that is that.’
It comes after West Yorkshire Police (WYP) announced last week it would temporarily block white British candidates from applying to join its police constable entry programme.
Former officers said ‘under-represented groups’ are being permitted to apply early, while submissions from white Britons are ‘hidden’.
WYP has said the policies are in place to make sure ‘diverse communities’ are represented by the officers serving them, The Telegraph reports.
But former members of the force have accused it of effectively running a ‘hidden’ recruitment policy that targets certain groups.
According to a whistleblower who was significantly involved in screening job applications for recruits, he voiced concerns about the policy but received a warning not to become involved.
He also said black and far East Asian candidates were considered among the particularly under-represented and given a ‘gold’ ranking, whereas those of Southeast Asian origin made it to the silver tier.
Nobody should be permitted to join our police services if they are not fluent in English. You’re not going to get quality candidates from this, and what is their end game? Even less work because when you call and the police arrive they can’t even understand you.
Public service should require proficiency in English.
Asking someone to speak English is considered a hate crime, according to the police.
It’s no surprise that people don’t respect the police.
Diverse communities shouldn’t exist. Like in Rome, if you wish to live in the UK, you must respect and adhere to our laws and customs, as well as integrate into society; if not, you should go!
So, now you can be arrested by someone who can’t read or write properly and who doesn’t even speak good English. Wow, now that’s progress!
How will these ethnic police process paperwork or communicate in English if they can barely speak or read it? Surely a reasonable knowledge of the written and spoken vocabulary should be a requirement?
Is it not a security risk to employ outsiders as police officers?
The problem is that many migrants have no sense of commitment to our nation and are only concerned with ensuring their own safety. That in itself is a possible conflict of interest!
Yet another woke institution that is paid for by the taxpayer.
The 2010 Equality Act. This implies that the Chief Constables may face legal prosecution for targeting Muslim or ethnic minorities and failing to treat white Caucasian males equally by disobeying the law. In addition, every white or Caucasian man who has been turned away has the right to sue the police personally.
What use is a policeman who can’t read, write or speak English? How can they offer any assistance in a crisis? I would love to see one of the policemen take the witness stand in court to give evidence.
If the police are so hell-bent on employing outsiders, why don’t they just publicise the positions in prison recreation rooms and be done with it?
Honestly, this is a race to the bottom of the barrel!
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