A police chief has torn a diversity guide who told officers to prevent them from saying 'on the blacklist' and 'black sheep' in case it insulted someone.
The police and crime commissioner of Hertfordshire, Jonathan Ash-Edwards, called the document “Virtue Signaling” and said that “public trust and trust in the police would damage.”
The nine-page diversity, equality and inclusion reference guide, published last year, was made by the police of Bedfordshire and the Constabularies of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
It called on police officers to use gender -neutral language, such as 'pregnant person' instead of pregnant women, while it advised to use 'Christian -oriented' language, such as 'faith'.
Ash-Edwards, who was chosen in his role last May, said that he and Hertfordshire head commissioner Andy Prophet shared the concern about the guide and now “gave an assessment of all such documents.”
He demanded a return to 'common sense … when it comes to language' and told De Telegraaf in a statement: 'It is unlikely that police officers and employees ask to use conditions as' pregnant people' as' inclusive 'be seen as 'Including' many women for example. '
Ash-Edwards said from his experience in meeting residents of the many Asian inhabitants of different communities, are concerned about family souls of burglaries, our Jewish communities fear anti-Semitic hate crimes. “
“What I still have to hear is a call for more virtue signaling,” he said.
The expression 'blacklist' has been warned in a police of nine pages of diversity, equality and inclusion reference guide
The police and crime commissioner of Hertfordshire, Jonathan Ash-Edwards, called the document “Virtue Signaling” and said that “public trust and trust in the police would damage”
He contributes to growing voices of bewilderment against the guide.
The 'Reference Resource for Staff and Officers' Handout said that gender is a 'social construct with regard to behavior and attributes'.
“There is a broader range of gender identities than just male and female,” it added.
The guide includes concepts such as racial micro -reasons and white vulnerability – which is defined as “a state in which some white people are unable to process or process the information about racism.”
Officers are also remembered to remember generalizations such as the elderly people are grumpy and boring and women in the fifty are menopausal.
Last week Festus Akinbusoye, the first black police and crime commissioner of the VK (PCC) and former PCC for Bedfordshire Constabulary, mentioned the document 'Completely crazy'.
Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Constabularies have created a diversity, equality and inclusion reference guide for their officers and personnel (file image)
Festus Akinbusoye, the first black police and crime commissioner of the VK (PCC) and former PCC for Bedfordshire Constabulary, called the Guidance 'Extremely Crazy'
He wondered why the term 'whitewashing' was not chosen for criticism, but the terms 'on the blacklist', 'Black Sheep' and 'Black Mark' were.
“If this was to have been brought to my attention while serving as a police and crime commissioner, I would have asked questions about the necessity and limited inclusiveness of this inclusion document,” Mr Akinbusoye added.
James Essen, a psychotherapist and campaigner who placed screenshots of guidance on X, said: 'I think it is completely madness that we have seen the damage caused by this ideology in all years, that this was sent to police officers. '
The three forces said in a joint statement that the guide was aimed at helping officers to identify the difference in communities and to treat the public with respect.
