In 2022 the British public are starting to see and understand the full appalling effects of the steady politicisation of Britain’s police forces. Many of us have come to realise that our police are not what they once were and not as trustworthy as they once were. This is partly because trust in the police has diminished because of various police scandals, but also because of their willingness to make operational decisions in a manner that gives rise to suspicions that they are both politically biased and bent.

We’ve seen the continual rise of issues relating to many police forces lack of impartiality. These issues range from the disgraceful way that various forces have treated the BLM/Marxist demonstrators with kid gloves right through to those forces that have allowed over a period of nearly twenty years thousands upon thousands of non-Muslim girls to be targeted for abuse. We’ve also seen an increase in the number of senior police officers who are willing to make contentious statements, pander to minority activist groups and not questioning what they say and in at least one case try to intimidate people by putting up posters that misrepresent the law in to keeping silent about their opinions on social media.

There has all been a lot of senior police officers who appear to see their job as not to keep the streets safe for decent law abiding people, but to promote on, police time and with police resources, their own personal identity politics hobby horses. One such officer who is using her position to indulge in what is the quite frankly unprofessional behaviour of wishing those who disagree with her a ‘super uncomfortable month’ is Chief Inspector Lisa Gore of South Wales Police Force. This officer appears to have got a little vexed by members of the public questioning the whole Pride phenomenon and hit back in a deeply worrying manner, which reeks of impartiality on Twitter. I really prayed hard that this officer was a spoof but sadly and worryingly she is not. She really is a Chief Inspector of South Wales Police. This is what she said:

“I am appalled at some of the homophobic abuse my friends and colleagues have received on here recently. Supporting one persons rights does not take away anyone elses rights. The phrase is diversity AND inclusion not diversity and division.”

I suspect, by reading between the lines of CI Gore’s Tweet and by the use of the phrase referencing taking others rights away, that this may be aimed at gender critical individuals and in particular gender critical feminists and Lesbians. I also suspect, from this Tweet, that some of the criticism that she and her officers might have been getting was around the idea that by promoting ‘LGBT’ issues makes her force look biased and divisive.

So far into the story of CI Gore we are getting the usual ‘allyship groupspeak’, the virtue signalling and narrative promotion that we’ve come to see, expect and increasingly despise that comes from the mouths of senior police officers. However what made CI Gore’s intervention into this area was her decision to post a meme that should not have been posted by a senior officer because it is a) unprofessional and b) gives the distinct impression that South Wales Police were corrupted by identity politics and therefore could not be trusted to police equally.

This is playground behaviour. It’s the equivalent of a child in a playground saying ‘your mum smells’ to another child whom they’ve fallen out with. It’s not behaviour that we should be seeing from senior officers.

Although CI Gore states on her Twitter Bio which is screenshotted below, that all her views are her own, that get out is undermined by the fact that she lists her force, her ‘diversity and inclusion’ work with the National Police Chief’s Council and is pictured in her uniform. She’s plainly identified as a police officer and that, with the combination of her published views, is bound to make people wonder whether her views influence her operational policing activities.

Police officers not only need to be unbiased but be seen to be unbiased. CI Gore gives the impression that she’s neither.

CI Gore got some support from within her diversity echo chamber but there were quite a few others who made comments criticising her decision to do activism whilst readily identifiable as a senior police officer. Here’s some of the comments:

In my view the negative commentators are correct. The police should be there for everyone and not give the impression that they are more interested in providing services to one group in particular rather than serving everybody. It’s right and proper that today Britain’s police forces are not ‘raiding our pubs for no reason at all, lining the customers up by the wall’ like they were in the past, by which I mean LGB people are now or should be policed the same as everyone else. But it is quite another thing to exclusively pander to specific groups and ideologies and thereby raise suspicions among the public that some people are policed differently and in a manner that might be more personally advantageously for them.

We have growing crime problems in the UK, real crimes, the sort of crimes that worry people, keep them in fear for their lives and the lives of their families. It is utterly and completely scandalous in my view that we could have officers who have reached such a senior rank and pay grade as CI Gore is involved in virtue signalling and indulging what are luxury beliefs, at a time when her policing skills, whatever they might be, could and should be put to better use in tackling the crime that really bothers and harms people.