TRAINING DAY
The Met's 'Racist' Role Play For New Recruits
The Metropolitan police has been forced to drop a “racist, misogynistic and discriminatory” training programme for its next generation of detectives after university lecturers refused to deliver it, The Upsetter can reveal.
Lecturers and students objected to an excessively violent case study “stereotyping” Asian and Middle Eastern immigrants as drug dealers, money launderers, rapists and child abusers.
The key villain of the case study, a Turkish man, justifies his appalling crimes against women - including anal rape with a hammer, torture with cigarettes and incest - by invoking Sharia law, the governing principles for being a good Muslim.
The case study, which is full of other racist tropes and includes throat slitting, self-mutilation, grooming and attacks on a disabled child, was drafted and approved by the Met’s Crime Academy.
The embarrassing u-turn comes in a month when the Met is under special measures, faces a recruitment crisis and has appointed a new Commissioner to regain public trust.
The dropping of the case study followed the mutiny of university lecturers, many of them ex-police officers, who are employed under a £300m training contract outsourced by the Met to the defence firm Babcock International.
One white retired police officer who objected to teaching the case study, wrote: “If anything shouts out ‘stereotyping’ this is a good example.”
Gurpal Virdi, a former Met detective who also taught the course, said:
“The scenario explains why nothing is changing in the police. When I was at training school all suspects were black. As educators we cannot allow young minds to be contaminated with racism and discrimination. Policing is about keeping an open mind rather than narrow vision.”
Others see Babcock’s contract as having created a “gravy train” for an “old boys’ network” of mainly white, retired Met officers exporting out-dated culture.