Multi-Culturalism More Important Than Crime

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Multi-Culturalism More Important Than Crime

Taken from Richard Littlejohn's column in the Daily Mail, ...

Stuart Davidson ("David Copperfield" - a police officer) said: ... "Thousands of front-line officers like me have to fight a daily battle just to get out of the office, before we even think of going after criminals.
"I'm lucky if I spend more than an hour a day on patrol.
"My initial training in Britain was as dissatisfying as the selection procedures. We learned very little about crime, all too much about multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity towards bisexuals.
"During my course, I spent just half an hour on burglaries, but three whole days on diversity, where we were encouraged to confront our supposed prejudices about Muslims, travellers or transgendered peoples, though, in reality, you would never find a less prejudiced group than my fellow recruits.
"None of this highly politicised training prepared us for going out on the streets to take on thugs and thieves.
"But, as I grew to learn over the subsequent four years, such tasks were only a small part of policing.
"Our main work, it turned out, comprised of watching our backs, answering questions from procedure-fixated superiors, and doing the bidding of deskbound bureaucrats.
"Even the most trivial offences would result in a blizzard of forms and hours behind the desk.
"Take one example. Earlier this year, I was called to the house of a woman who claimed her boyfriend had stolen her dog.
"The supposed crime turned out to be little more than a minor domestic tiff and the dog was soon returned.
"I thought that was the end of the matter. But no. A deluge of paperwork followed. I had to fill in forms covering witness statements, domestic incidents, 'no crime reported' and attempted detection.
"In all, this nonsense covered 12 pages of written documentation. It was a meaningless pantomime, for we all knew that no action was necessary.
"On another occasion, I had to go to an incident where a boy was alleged to have thrown a football at another.
"By the time I got to the scene, the supposed victim could barely remember anything about this trivial event but, even so, all the painful, needless bureaucratic steps had to be followed, including a videoed interview."
An obsession with targets and box-ticking meant "we get exactly the same points for cautioning a girl for pulling another girl's hair as we get for a burglary".

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