Another great day for the Met (part 1)

[mrph]

Asian police officers "and in particular Pakistani Muslim officers" need special anti-corruption training, according to an internal police report. The report was commissioned to "investigate why complaints of misconduct and corruption against Asian officers are 10 times higher than against their white colleagues", but has now been leaked to the press.

That's going to make Asian officers feel so much more welcome, isn't it? It also seems to skip one very important point - complaints of misconduct are very high, but the report remains silent on whether or not they're found to be justified.

Are confirmed corruption/misconduct reports also uncomfortably high, or are the majority of these just wild claims, targeting officers who look/sound a bit different from the norm?

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[livingarmchair.livejournal.com]

If the report focuses on "Pakastani Muslim officers" then it suggests that the complaints aren't targetting officers who look/sound different - otherwise Indian and other minority officers would be in the firing line as well. It may well be a real problem of culture - and rather than be PC about it, reports like this need to be produced otherwise we could be hiding problems to appease the PC brigade.

Does the report have any figures to back up its conclusions?

[jruske.livejournal.com]

Are confirmed corruption/misconduct reports also uncomfortably high, or are the majority of these just wild claims, targeting officers who look/sound a bit different from the norm?

Well... investigating the claims would probably be racist or profiling, so I guess we'll never know.

*so painful* :(

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Nah. Investigating the claims is standard procedure - and if the officer concerned holds any kind of rank, there'll usually be some sort of news story about it.

I know we've had at least two long and drawn-out investigations of high-ranking Asian officers which found nothing amiss - I don't know whether the more numerous but less newsworthy ones, of cop-on-the-beat officers, tell a different story...