Scotland Yard To Seek Law Change To Allow Positive Discrimination.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/02/met-police-law-positive-discrimination

They wish to change the present law so that a white police officer cannot be recruited unless a black or minority ethnic person can be recruited at the same" time.

Do you agree with this or will it cause more segregation than it is meant to prevent?

They were discussing this on a radio phone-in this morning and a spokesman for the Black Police Officer's association said that "there are areas in London were black householders will refuse to open their doors to a white police officer", and he found this quite acceptable.

Where will all this end, will it be deemed necessary to send along a Rumanian police office to a house occupied by Romanians, or even a black, Somalian, Muslim police officer, to a house so occupied by a black Somalian Muslim, or women refusing unless the officer is female etc?

This is all getting too ridiculous for words in the strive to introduce a true multi ethnic Britain. When are some going to realise that we are still a majority white European Christian country, and if anyone refuses to open their doors to a police officer independent of his or her colour, the police are in their right to knock down their door.

Apart from the fact that if a white person refused to open their door because the officer was black, they would face much more than just having their door knocked down.

[Orderlimit]

Well I got what it meant AOG !

[Zeuhl]

Well anyone who thinks the Police won't bash a door down if they need to regardless of what someone inside says is being rather naive

The original comment was obviously related to police making more mundane 'door to door enquiries' as in 'a neighbour's car was stolen last night did you see anything?'

[FredPuli43]

. Aog, your posts seem remarkable for always saying precisely what they mean and the thought that there may be some subtle message in the literal text, something understood, some nuance is worrying. . There could be something being expressed which the words, read literally, don't convey to me. I apologise for not seeing that.