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“Police chiefs make officers ‘reflect on anti-racism’ with 500-word essays.”
Real Telegraph headline, this week. Part of DEI training costing forces hundreds of thousands of pounds of your money.
I spent my career in policing. I’ve read the report . I’m furious. 🧵
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Because it’s worse than waste.
The people with the power to arrest you are being trained to see the law-abiding, gender-critical, immigration-sceptical public — millions of us — as the problem.
Not the threat on the street. Us. Our opinions.
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The smear is now written into police training.
Northamptonshire trainers are told to link “the rise of Right-wing groups” to “Britain since the 2016 European referendum.”
17 million people voted Leave. The training frames that vote as the backdrop to extremism.
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Dyfed-Powys officers are shown fake headlines — “migrant invasion out of control,” “NHS at bursting point due to migrants” — and asked how to resist “media-influenced assumptions.”
The message: if immigration concerns you, you’ve been manipulated. You’re a bias to be corrected.
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Same force. A slide of “harmful messaging” to flag — including the words “immigration borders, what a mess!”
Ordinary concern about the border. Reclassified as prejudice. Taught to officers as something to unlearn.
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The gender ideology is elsewhere in the material — and explicit. Norfolk & Suffolk host sessions on “supporting trans and non-binary people at work” and “gender & sexuality skills.”
The belief that you can’t say a man is a man — taught as workplace training.
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Why that should chill you.
These are the same forces that arrested Graham Linehan over posts about trans activists. That questioned Allison Pearson, a journalist, over a tweet. No wrongdoing found in either.
Train officers to see gender-critical views as bias — and this is what you get.
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Now the confessional.
Surrey Police make officers write a 500-word “reflection” on building an “anti-racist police service” — their “personal reactions,” their “commitment to change.”
Not a test of the law. A test of belief. Struggle sessions, in a British police force.
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I’ll say plainly what 21 years of police service taught me, and I’ll stand behind it:
The threat to women, to free speech, to fair policing right now is not coming from the people who worry about the border.
It’s coming from the ideology being taught in that room and in other organisations, NHS, Govt, Universities up and down 🇬🇧
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And I’ll make the case directly: this training is contributing to the two-tier policing we are watching unfold.
Tell officers to be “anti-racist” over fair. Tell them to treat groups differently. Tell them the sceptical public is the bias. Two-tier outcomes follow. That’s the design working as built.
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It’s not even contested doctrine — it’s written down. The national race action plan, updated 2025, tells officers equity “does not mean treating everyone ‘the same.’”
The people sworn to police without fear or favour — told, in writing, not to treat everyone the same.
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And they spend a fortune teaching it.
Dyfed-Powys: £147,214 in one year. Five diversity officers, up to £180,000 a year.
Northamptonshire: eight diversity staff, over £405,000 a year.
Avon and Somerset: nearly £400,000 over five years.
Ask for an officer when you’re burgled. See how fast one comes.
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And they spend a fortune teaching it.
Dyfed-Powys: £147,214 in one year. Five diversity officers, up to £180,000 a year.
Northamptonshire: eight diversity staff, over £405,000 a year.
Avon and Somerset: nearly £400,000 over five years.
Ask for an officer when you’re burgled. See how fast one comes.
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City of London Police: £42,000 to a consultancy on “equality-led cultures.” A session on “extremism” — after which staff agreed to host a “listening circle” about Gaza.
The money exists. It always exists — for this. Never for the burglary, the theft, the harassed woman.
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Even the Home Secretary half-sees it. In March she scrapped recording non-crime hate incidents — investigate real crime, she said, not tweets.
Surrey’s training still teaches officers to record them. The force can’t confirm the guidance was ever updated.
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And it isn’t only here. This week the US Secretary of State @marcorubio told 66 nations that Western institutions have a “blind spot” — years training their people to look one way while ignoring what comes from the other direction.
Britain’s police have exactly that blind spot. These documents are the proof.
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So this is where we are.
Concern about immigration — recast as bias.
Knowing a man is a man — recast as prejudice.
A Leave vote — recast as the seedbed of extremism.
Paid for by you. Aimed at you. And bleeding into how you’re policed.
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I’m not asking you to be quiet. I’m asking you to be as angry as I am.
The smear is now policy. The people under suspicion are the ones who did nothing but hold a view millions share.
Say so. Loudly. While we still can.
📎 Telegraph investigation in the reply. 👇
Police chiefs make officers ‘reflect on anti-racism’ with 500-word essays telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/1…
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