2023-09-02 21:44:09
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman wants to fight “political activism” in the police and announced on Saturday the launch of an investigation into these practices which would divert officers from their essential missions, an initiative widely criticized by the opposition .
“The British people expect their police to focus on tackling crime and protecting communities. Political activism does not keep people safe, solve crimes or support victims, but can damage public trust,” the Conservative minister said in a statement, which is very offensive against progressive “woke” activism.
In a daily interview The Daily Telegraphshe thus denounces “the unacceptable increase in partisan positions” within the police, quick to “bend to politically correct causes”.
She mentions in particular police officers who knelt down at the height of the “Black Lives Matter” movement in 2020, or the fact that the police were able to designate rapists who identify as transgender with the pronoun “she”.
A minister known for her harsh words
Some elected officials and conservative media also regularly denounce the expenditure made by the police to decorate some of their cars in the colors of the LGBT+ movement.
The police must “make sure to have a position of strict neutrality at all times, even if it offends certain parts of society”, still believes in this interview the minister, known for her harsh remarks on migrants or environmental activists. .
She also claims to have exchanged with “hundreds” of police officers who “are tired of the speeches of virtue to which some police officials have devoted their time instead of concentrating on their work in the fight against crime”.
The British police have in particular been shaken by several scandals in recent years which have highlighted the racist, misogynistic or homophobic behavior of certain officers, practices denounced in reports which have caused a stir.
The announcement of this survey was denounced by the Labor opposition, which is well ahead in the polls against a Conservative government barely a year away from the next general election and after 13 years in power.
A spokesperson denounced the minister’s initiative, which was more focused on “her personal political obsessions” rather than on the implementation of “serious and concrete measures to repair the failures of the Conservatives”.
The head of domestic affairs within the Liberal Democrat party, Alistair Carmichael, criticized Suella Braverman for “using the police as a weapon in her culture war”.
The police are “too important to be used as a football on the political field”, also denounced the vice-president of the police union in England and Wales, Tiffany Lynch.
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