Swella Braverman stated that the police should not interfere in debates about gender-critical points of view. Photo: Findlay/Alamy Live News
Police officers who intervene on «contested» issues such as trans debates on Twitter or criticism of race theory are undermining public trust by going down on their knees, says Swaella Braverman.
The Minister of the Interior stated that the police should be «politically impartial» and stop the «virtue alarm», so they focused on «common sense policing» where fighting crime was a priority.
Amid a heated argument over a passive response to the chaos caused by Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Mrs. Braverman also said the police should not «give them cups of tea or dance along» with violent protesters.
She spoke at the opening of the Public Safety Fund, a police think tank going back to basics as the government announced it had reached its goal of recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales. The Metropolitan Police was the only one of the 43 forces to miss its 1,000 man target.
Suella Braverman said the police force a culture of impartiality is needed. Photo: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Ms Braverman said: «When police chiefs spend taxpayer money that could have been spent on fighting crime on diversity education that promotes a contested ideology, such as critical race theory, the reputation of the police as an institution is undermined in the eyes of the public.»
«Some forces have equality teams that have completely abandoned impartiality in favor of partisan stance, sometimes even getting into political bickering on Twitter.
“The notion that some police officers are more interested in showing virtue or in protecting the interests of a radical minority engaged in criminal activity than in protecting the rights of a law-abiding majority is extremely damaging to public confidence in the police.”
Guarding legitimate debate
On In the example of the transgender flag, Ms Braverman said: “I want to get people across that the police should not control legitimate debate. For someone to express gender-critical views on social media, they should not interfere with it.
"They should not interfere with, hold or support views that relate to critical racial theory, they should not must kneel.»
She also said. police shouldn't be spending thousands of pounds on shoelaces promoting equality. Earlier this year, she declared war on "politically correct nonsense" after Interior Ministry staff were urged to wear rainbow straps at an indoor event where they were ordered not to use words including «homosexual».
“If police chiefs approached cultivating a culture of political impartiality with the same dedication with which they approach cultivating a culture of diversity and inclusion, I have no doubt that political trust in the police would increase substantially,” she said.
< p>Ms Braverman also urged police chiefs to more widely distribute footage from officers' wearable videos to counter «false» accusations against them and prevent a «social media trial» where «dangerous narratives» could emerge.
She said she would be writing to police chiefs to reaffirm the importance of stop and search tactics in the fight against crime and «the government's full support for its proper use by the police.»
«Common sense policing requires the use of the most effective accessible tools without regard to political correctness,” she said. “Stop and frisk is a perfect example. It is an essential tool that I and this government fully support by the police to keep our streets safe.”
She came after figures showed that over 20,000 new police officers have been hired in England and Wales. — fulfilling the promise of the Conservative manifesto — but Britain's largest police force has not achieved its individual goal. Of the 43 forces, the Met was the only one about 1,000 behind.
Ms Braverman said a cultural change in the police force was needed following the Baroness Casey report, which found the force institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
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