Radical new laws should allow police to positively discriminate in favour of minority ethnic recruits, otherwise the ranks of officers will be too white for decades to come, the leader of Britain’s police chiefs has said…
There’s a lot to unpack here.
Thornton is the chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council and will retire next month after 33 years of ‘service’.
She rose to the top having been part of the Metropolitan team during the Macpherson inquiry, a watershed moment for policing in the UK which still shapes their public policy and debate today.
She was and remains a proponent of diversification for the Metropolitan police, saying “positive discrimination” laws are necessary.
She was also one of the senior officials that, during the Oxford rape gang scandal, refused to resign over a catalogue of failings and missed opportunities which left a sex trafficking gang in Oxford free to rape young girls for many years. ...
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