{"id":574,"date":"2026-07-23T23:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:07:59","slug":"inside-britains-dei-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Inside Britain’s DEI police force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew*, a detective sergeant in the Metropolitan Police, is telling me about a former trainee. \u201cBefore they join, direct-entry detectives are sold the whole <\/span>Line of Duty<\/span><\/i> bollocks,\u201d he says. \u201cThey think they\u2019ll be chasing gangsters. Then we dump them in an office and give them 40 GBHs, frauds and sexual assaults to deal with.\u201d That\u2019s what normally happens <\/span>\u2014 but Andrew\u2019s colleague was neurodiverse. <\/span>This allowed her to get \u201creasonable adjustments\u201d under the Equality Act, meaning she only had to investigate a single case at a time. What about the other 39 crimes the average detective deals with? \u201cThe rest of her team took them on,\u201d Andrew says. The rookie\u2019s staff association even argued she couldn\u2019t be put in situations where she might be surprised. \u201cThat is obviously a problem for a detective,\u201d he adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Frankie goes to Downing Street<\/a><\/p>\n

In the end, the trainee resigned,<\/span> but Andrew\u2019s problems are hardly over. For if modern British p<\/span>olicing resembles a moth-eaten tapestry made up of many tawdry threads, one thread is surely the cohort of officers that joined after 2010. Old police hands have a tendency to unfairly decry new recruits. Yet recent blunders,<\/span> from <\/span>muddled reporting<\/span> over Ann Widdecombe\u2019s death<\/span> to the anti-racism row over the Henry Nowak case,<\/span> expose just how broken British law enforcement now is <\/span>\u2014 not least when it comes to recruitment and training.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interviewing insiders from forces across Britain, I unearthed a story of bad policy, craven leadership and chronic underinvestment. Yes, DEI can harm policing, but not necessarily in the way critics imagine. Because while the strictures of the Equality Act cause doubtless harm on the streets, it also means forces often spend as much time wet-nursing vulnerable recruits as they do catching criminals. Combined with a raft of other<\/span> problems, from a shrinking talent pool to the continued scourge of discrimination, and the future of British law enforcement looks grim.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To understand how Andrew\u2019s trainee could avoid over 95% of her duties, you must first understand the <\/span>Equality Act<\/span>. Passed in early 2010, as New Labour stumbled towards defeat that May, it bundled existing anti-discrimination law into a single piece of overarching, rocket-assisted legislation. By creating nine \u201cprotected characteristics\u201d <\/span>\u2014<\/span> from age to sex to disability <\/span>\u2014<\/span> lawmakers dumped employers into a legal and procedural minefield. Forcing managers to constantly balance rights and responsibilities, the Act is riven by ambiguities, making it easy to exploit or misinterpret. Crucially, the police have no blanket exemption to any of this: every officer\u2019s duties must be considered on a case-by-case basis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This creates maddening issues for police forces, especially given a seemingly insatiable appetite for what the Equality Act calls \u201c<\/span>reasonable adjustments<\/span>\u201d. Paul*, a recruiter for one Northern force, heard of a young officer who suffered from \u201chypersexuality\u201d<\/span>\u00a0requesting an extra 30 minutes in the work day to \u201csort herself out\u201d. She was refused.<\/span>\u00a0Most <\/span> are more mundane, typically involving working from home or avoiding certain duties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Much of this dysfunction comes from the top. As one former staff officer puts it: \u201cSenior officers? All they seem to talk about and care about, really, is DEI.\u201d This is borne out if you tour the upper echelons of forces nationwide. During one specialist policing course, a visiting chief superintendent spoke of nothing but opening up opportunities for minorities. On the actual subject matter? Not a word. Initially, this enthusiasm was probably a function of ambition, with promotion linked to pushing DEI. Then came a cultural and generational shift as a more activist cohort of officers entered the top tier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t help that police line managers complain of having decisions challenged by <\/span>staff networks<\/span> \u2014 representing ethnicity, religion and neurodiversity, among others \u2014 <\/span>established to protect minority rights under the Equality Act. One instructor complains how \u201cthe prestige of being able to say we\u2019ve recruited officers from this or that underrepresented group\u201d trumps operational efficacy. This is exacerbated by endless <\/span>excoriating reviews<\/span>, contributing to a culture of tale-telling. Stations increasingly resemble schoolyards, bubbling with rights-based resentments. Officers allege discrimination to distract from poor performance. And managers find themselves engulfed in office feuds, when really their focus should be on fighting crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the vagaries of the Equality Act, Gen Z recruits do also seem more vulnerable. Andrew recalls one officer who had to leave a tape-recorded interview after a suspect began swearing at her. \u201cI found her hiding in a cupboard with a blanket over her head.\u201d By 2024, officers <\/span>reportedly<\/span> took 774,000 man-days off for mental health reasons. No wonder many sergeants and inspectors complain of becoming little more than HR officers with truncheons, occupational health advisors and therapists to Gen Z rookies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before any of this, though, new coppers need training. Until the Equality Act, many would have been precluded from joining. Now, though, forces must now find a way of adapting to recruits with a range of physical and mental health issues \u2014 even as courses themselves are less rigorous than ever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

Hendon Police College, stranded in an unglamorous corner of northwest London, was always ugly. When I trained there in the early Nineties, before going on to serve at the Met for a quarter of a century, it felt like a Soviet housing project. Now, with its rows of modern, yellow-topped classrooms, it resembles an Amazon fulfillment center. The old Hendon site was demolished in 2015, after doubling as the Eastern European country of \u201cSokovia\u201d in an <\/span>Avengers<\/span><\/i> superhero movie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Back then, officers joked the real supervillain was <\/span>Theresa May<\/span>. As home secretary, May oversaw reforms responsible for today\u2019s desiccated police service, not least in terms of cuts. Officers no longer attend costly residential training courses, instead commuting to training centers or universities. What was once a quasi-paramilitary model, complete with square-bashing and long hours, became a more congenial, \u201ccivilized\u201d experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Veteran officers believe the old model was better: it developed a sense of camaraderie and focus. More than that, it gave instructors far more insight into their charges. My own time at Hendon involved daily role-playing exercises involving negotiation, confrontation and exercising practical legal knowledge. On the \u201ctraining roads\u201d around the campus, knots of novice coppers acted out arrests, stopping cars, searching people, adjudicating disputes and taking statements. Our performance was dissected by the instructors, our failings explained firmly but fairly. It mattered, too, that until the residential training centers were closed in the early 2000s, trainers were all sergeants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, though, this robust in-person training is increasingly replaced by distance learning. In practice, this means fewer practical demonstrations and more learning how to stop and search from an online questionnaire. This, Paul argues, creates \u201cofficers with little life experience, a superficial knowledge of the law, precious little knowledge of how to put a prosecution case file together, and [who] have to fill in their lack of knowledge with enthusiasm\u201d. For their part, sergeants have been replaced by more junior PCs, cheaper to employ but who seem to be more \u201cprofessional trainers\u201d than practical officers. Paul adds that he\u2019s heard training increasingly involves short days and \u201cdirected self-study\u201d: a euphemism for unsupervised homework.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instructors are themselves under pressure to keep costs down. Now retired, Alex* taught \u201cstudent constables\u201d in the South West of England. \u201cRecruiting\u2019s driven by accountancy mindsets,\u201d he says. \u201cThis leads to corner cutting, kit shortages and no investment in training amenities.\u201d This typically means swapping out resource-intensive roleplays for abstract lectures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given all this, officers are reluctant to attack the newbies too harshly. \u201cThe current set-up\u2019s broken,\u201d admits Liam*, who before his retirement trained direct-entry detectives for a Northern force. \u201cI\u2019m not blaming the recruits, it\u2019s just the initial recruitment process is flawed. During Covid, the whole thing was done over Teams! How can anyone be accurately assessed over Teams?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor are recruits responsible for the way senior staff indulge the worst Whitehall predilections. Alex describes how health-and-safety legislation has led to \u201ca regime terrified of any risk, leading to sterile and false training scenarios\u201d. Officers are now unlikely to receive proper training to deal with aggressive suspects, let alone undergo scenarios where their partners deliberately lie. One only needs to glance at the Henry Nowak video to see the potential problems of this approach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My Hendon class, in 1992, consisted of 14 trainee constables. Two were from ethnic minorities and two were women. Aged between 22 and 46, our number included three graduates, a former bus driver, an insurance salesman and a retired army warrant officer. One colleague had memorably been a male model. If we weren\u2019t wholly representative of Londoners, we were at least reasonably educated, in good health and level-headed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Why you don\u2019t really get Homer<\/a><\/p>\n

If initial training was doubtless better then, my interviewees also agree that the talent pool has shrunk. In part, that\u2019s down to broad societal changes. Alex, the former instructor, cites the smaller armed forces, so fewer take that \u201cwell-trodden path\u201d to the police. Alternative careers, from digital nomadism to IT apprenticeships, are also more available than in the early Nineties, offering better pay for less anti-social hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This coincides with sea-changes in recruitment. Hoping to \u201cprofessionalize\u201d policing, policymakers encouraged would-be officers to pursue degree training alongside a nursing-style license to practice. Significant pay cuts arrived too, meaning new recruits are generally younger and less experienced. Like Andrew\u2019s ex-colleague, people can also now join as \u201cdirect-entry\u201d detectives, missing out on the two years of beat experience older officers insist is key to becoming an investigator. This route is particularly popular among middle-class recruits, whole are less suited to dealing with the ugly realities of Britain\u2019s criminal class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But perhaps most significant is the 2020 change which allows 17-and-a-half-year-olds to sign up. Some of these younger officers, I\u2019m told, come from challenging backgrounds. Their life experience and education is significantly different from officers of my generation: and generally for the worse. Their relative <\/span>youth<\/span>, Alex explains, also means \u201cthey\u2019re learning so much, so quickly, and are so unprepared, that they struggle\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet it\u2019s hard, here, not to return to the Equality Act<\/span>. Paul tells me about one new officer with <\/span>cerebral palsy, who secured reasonable adjustments despite being unable to pass the personal-safety training where recruits learn to use handcuffs and CS spray. Another newbie, a direct-entry DC, failed the same course because of dyspraxia so severe he kept dropping his baton. Apart from tolerating candidates physically unable to perform basic duties, forces are also required to cater to pre-existing psychological issues. Despite holding generally \u201cprogressive views\u201d \u2014 and suggesting the emphasis on the racial aspect of DEI training was over-egged \u2014 Paul nonetheless despairs at the consequences. \u201cWhat victim cares that the new PC is anxious or has debilitating dyslexia?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As in policing at large, attempts to challenge the status quo are given short shrift, with managers keen not to rock the DEI boat. Alex, the former recruit instructor, says \u201cthe tone set is one that says \u2018we\u2019ll support your decision, just as long as it\u2019s not contentious or difficult.\u2019 The fear culture arises out of a combination of factors, ranging from the diversity industry; a promotion system that\u2019s all about group think; and selfish ambition.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex\u2019s experiences chime with my own service. By the time I retired, in 2018, the Met felt like North Korea \u2014 run by David Brent. I remember enduring computer-based DEI training claiming that telling sexist jokes was only <\/span>a few steps <\/span>from genocide. No wonder supervisors struggle to manage new recruits. \u201cThere\u2019s a fear of doing anything informally at any level,\u201d Alex says. \u201cNow it\u2019s just \u2018pass the buck\u2019 straight to [professional standards] for any level of allegation regardless of how minor or frankly daft it may be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new police training regime is supposedly built of good intentions. The irony, though, is that if it allows nice if unsuited candidates too much leeway, this system also does little to stem the flow of genuinely malicious recruits. There are <\/span>plenty of examples<\/span> here, from David Carrick to Cliff Mitchell, with the usual blend of cuts and remote work partly to blame. Wayne Couzens, too, <\/span>dodged<\/span> recruitment vetting before going on to murder Sarah Everard, while cuts to training meant he was enthusiastically received into the Met on account of the firearms skills he\u2019d acquired in the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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After marching off Hendon\u2019s parade square, I was posted to a West London police station. There, along with three others, I went through the final stage of my training \u2014 being \u201cpuppy-walked\u201d for 12 weeks by a sweaty old sergeant and three tutor constables. It was made clear that, should I be found wanting, I\u2019d be dismissed from the Met. The tutors were patient, but happily issued bollockings where appropriate. There were fines \u2014 50p here, a pound there \u2014 for stupid mistakes, the proceeds going towards an end-of-course drink. Meanwhile, my first arrest was closely supervised and mentored until the arrestee was bailed. I felt confident and supported throughout.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These days, though, quality control is infinitely harder \u2014 and the Equality Act is again partly to blame. \u201cYou can\u2019t get rid of people unless they use hurty words,\u201d says Andrew, the Met DS. \u201cThere was one uniformed officer playing the diversity game like a pro; she\u2019s got every protected characteristic and a portfolio of reasonable adjustments. She\u2019s bagged an office job and hasn\u2019t been on the street for years. I mean, she can\u2019t even meet the public or leave the building unless she\u2019s working from home. As far as I can see, she does very little.\u201d Not just her: <\/span>thousands<\/span> of Met officers aren\u2019t \u201cfully deployable\u201d because of their health or performance. All the while, officers are stoutly defended by the ever-present support networks; for the feckless and shameless, it\u2019s a license to take liberties. \u201cNobody ever challenged this officer,\u201d Andrew adds of her colleague. \u201cThen she boasted about the PIP payments she was claiming. Talking about it makes my blood boil.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

These problems are compounded by questionable mentoring practices, especially when rookies are now led by colleagues who faced similar training. More than a few crack under pressure. Over the past five years, forces <\/span>reported<\/span> up to a 19% attrition rate from new-officer resignations, unsurprising when policing was recently <\/span>described as<\/span> \u201cone of the most complex frontline positions in the public sector\u201d. It\u2019s hard to disagree, particularly when any error is soon plastered on social media. Forces, keen to atone for previous scandals, adopted zero-tolerance professional standards policies. Yet in another irony, this means that officers most prepared to get involved in operational policing are also those <\/span>most likely<\/span> to be disciplined. Many fear being \u201cchucked under buses\u201d for making mistakes, even in good faith. At a time when we desperately need more mature, experienced officers, we appear to be traveling in the opposite direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor is any of this theoretical. The recruitment, training and mentoring regime I\u2019ve laid out here was responsible for producing the officers involved in the Nowak case. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, the force in question, ceased residential training in 2006. After watching footage of the incident, I fully agreed with Jonathan Hinder, a former police inspector and now a Labour MP, who said the decision to handcuff the dying Nowak was \u201c<\/span>unfathomable<\/span>\u201d. But frankly, was it really, given how officers are now recruited and trained?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amid these horrors, and polls showing <\/span> the public trust the police to deal fairly with complaints, can forces really change? There are some tentative signs that they can \u2014 at least beyond London. As Paul puts it of his Northern force, \u201cthe current regime does produce officers who are smartly turned-out and have a healthy respect for rank.\u201d More than that, Paul says his colleagues would balk at the more absurd consequences of the Equality Act.<\/span> \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t dispute such a diagnosis,\u201d he says when I ask him about that \u201chypersexual\u201d young officer, \u201cbut wouldn\u2019t support 30 minutes wanking time either.\u201d This pragmatism is borne out elsewhere, with Sir Stephen Watson,<\/span> the head of Greater Manchester Police, coming out strongly <\/span>against<\/span> rainbow lanyards and dancing with protesters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The reasons for these regional differences remain relatively unexplored. Yet Sir Stephen\u2019s trenchant attitude \u2014 and my conversations with officers \u2014 suggest that the mood music from police headquarters percolates downwards. This only works, though, if chief constables feel supported by their bosses. It seems unlikely that Sadiq Khan will champion a campaign of common sense in the Met anytime soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the same, it\u2019s striking that even London\u2019s famously progressive force is shifting. The service recently introduced a scorched-earth policy for \u201cadjusted duties\u201d officers. It\u2019s a sign, perhaps, that managers are waking up to the disasters they\u2019ve wrought. Yet even here, Andrew believes that the belated fightback is partly because the Met still doesn\u2019t have the courage to back its managers. \u201cThe Met\u2019s terrified of being sued for discrimination,\u201d she explains, \u201cso it decided to treat everyone equally badly.\u201d The upshot? Well-performing staff with genuine health problems face six-monthly moves to other departments, a process one officer describes as \u201ca stealthy form of constructive dismissal\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked the Met to comment on this and other issues raised in my story. It declined. All the while, British policing seems happy pursuing policies that are meat and drink to its critics. For example, the <\/span>Telegraph<\/span><\/i> recently <\/span>reported<\/span> that trainees are instructed to write essays \u201creflecting on antiracism\u201d. Hopefully the investigation into Henry Nowak\u2019s death will delve into the reasoning behind this ideological focus, as important as managing fractious crime scenes doubtless is too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fail and the public will only keep suffering, as fantasies of inclusion collide with the brick wall of reality. Andrew, now nearing retirement, shakes his head. \u201cIt\u2019s the Met all over. They lowered standards for diversity reasons and to hell with the consequences \u2014 until it bit them on the arse.\u201d Of course, that doesn\u2019t stop chief officers from insisting they\u2019ve built inclusive forces, staffed by properly selected, well-trained constables. Politicians offer specious announcements around funding and officer numbers, claiming to support forces in keeping the streets safe. As Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood <\/span>said<\/span> in January, \u201cI\u2019m putting police back where they belong \u2014 on the beat and fighting criminals.\u201d To which the public is presumably entitled to reply, like the officer who handcuffed Henry Nowak, \u201cI don\u2019t think you have, mate\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Why you don\u2019t really get Homer<\/a><\/p>\n

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