@HertsPolice
Have been promoting their special constables including Cherry seen here with sparkly green nails, jewellery and an unusual amount of makeup for a police officer
I posted about it with a link to their uniform policy
Herts police deleted the original post as can be seen here
I also posted this one. Red nails. Even more alarming amount of make up
Discussion ensued - some serious, some funny, but all with the same basic point: does Herts police allow some of its officers to break some of the rules some of the time?
Herts police responded that derogatory comments will not be tolerated and will be deleted
I posted that Herts police can't actually delete people's tweets ...🙄
They deleted their tweet
Herts police replaced the tweet with with one saying derogatory tweets will be reported (to whom..? 🤷♀️)
More discussion ensued. Including @WeAreFairCop reminding then about the recent judgment in Miller v College of Police
Herts Police deleted that tweet
Qs:
- What is HP culture of safeguarding & anti-corruption like if it allows officers to flout rules?
- Are officers who raise issue internally told comments are "derogatory" & "won't be tolerated"?
- Why is HP social media run by people who think they can constrain legal speech?
Peter Wilkins case exposes another public body (this one part of @DefenceHQ) that lost sight of the Equality Act and of civil service principles of impartiality and objectivity.
One colleague accused him of making a "threatening" FOI request when he tried to draw attention to @dstlmod 's Line Manager’s Guide.
The FOI was turned down but I tried again.
At first DSTL said they couldn't find the document.
I said "have another look, its on your intranet" and they located it.
Then they thought long and hard about whether they could withhold it on security grounds.
Lynn O'Donnell had writen a document entitled Line Managers Guide to supporting LGBT+ Identifying staff.
It included the old Stonewall definition of transphobia (which has now been withdrawn).
The action starts not long after the Forstater EAT judgment.
Prof Sophie Scott is awarded the Faraday Prize and O'Donnell goes onto DSTL's "distillery" chat forum to say 'tis a pity she's a TERF....and linked GC views to rise in violence against LGBT people
The High Court has granted an anonymity order in relation to three individual "trans and intersex" claimants in the Good Law Project's case against EHRC for its interim update.
The nomination of Mary-Ann Stephenson as new chair of the EHRC brought the witch hunters out.
Stephenson has a PhD in equality law. She is Director of the Women’s Budget Group, and has been director of the Fawcett Society, chair of the Early Education and Childcare Coalition and a board member of Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre.
A bunch of charity CEOs (some of whom are part of "Equally Ours" with her) wrote a letter saying darkly she "previously supported views seen at odds with inclusivity for all"
There was a petition accusing her of making "anti-trans statements" and "association with groups advocating for the curtailment of trans people's human rights"