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“I honestly could not believe what I was reading when I saw this survey. As a gender critical police officer, I have been openly called a 'nazi, 'fascist', 'militant' and 'obtuse' - just for expressing my views post-Forstater".
This National Police Chiefs’ (NPCC) survey 👇 has been circulated to officers and staff nationally following the Supreme Court judgment. A serving police officer leaked the survey to us and shared their shock.
We suggest the NPCC (the head honchos of every UK police force) just need to follow the law. Now.
(WRN will not share the link to this survey publicly)
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“I honestly could not believe what I was reading when I saw this survey. As a gender critical police officer, I have been openly called a 'nazi, 'fascist', 'militant' and 'obtuse' - just for expressing my views post-Forstater".
This National Police Chiefs’ (NPCC) survey 👇 has been circulated to officers and staff nationally following the Supreme Court judgment. A serving police officer leaked the survey to us and shared their shock.
We suggest the NPCC (the head honchos of every UK police force) just need to follow the law. Now.
(WRN will not share the link to this survey publicly)
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The officer said:
"There is no mention of the horrendous treatment of gender critical people and, indeed, it actually goes above and beyond to imply my abusers might be the actual victims of the ruling".
"I have no hope that the current NPCC might do the decent thing and kick ideology out of policing once and for all. They seem intent on destroying the trust of the public, undermining the law and trashing what little morale there is left within the rank and file”.
Read on – and brace yourselves.
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"There is no mention of the horrendous treatment of gender critical people and, indeed, it actually goes above and beyond to imply my abusers might be the actual victims of the ruling".
"I have no hope that the current NPCC might do the decent thing and kick ideology out of policing once and for all. They seem intent on destroying the trust of the public, undermining the law and trashing what little morale there is left within the rank and file”.
Read on – and brace yourselves.
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Unbelievably, survey responses are sought to help the Chief Constables (the heads of each police force) to identify what now needs to be done and to detail how this ‘emotive and deeply personal’ subject effects them.
After the initial sorting hat questions, survey respondents are asked how they feel about the judgment.
Because apparently, the NPCC’s shared focus is on ‘creating a safe and inclusive environment’.
Silly us, we thought legal compliance would be the shared focus. They are the police after all.
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After the initial sorting hat questions, survey respondents are asked how they feel about the judgment.
Because apparently, the NPCC’s shared focus is on ‘creating a safe and inclusive environment’.
Silly us, we thought legal compliance would be the shared focus. They are the police after all.
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Have police chiefs gone completely mad here?
Why would police officers and police staff need to be asked about their personal safety ‘as a result of the Supreme Court ruling’? Or why there may be a ‘conflict’ with their ‘community’?
Are the NPCC implicitly suggesting there is something to be worried about?
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Why would police officers and police staff need to be asked about their personal safety ‘as a result of the Supreme Court ruling’? Or why there may be a ‘conflict’ with their ‘community’?
Are the NPCC implicitly suggesting there is something to be worried about?
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We had numerous responses from individual Chief Constables to our letter asking them when they will comply with the judgment in relation to workplace facilities.
They told us that the interim @EHRC guidance has been circulated. So why aren’t they making that clear to their staff here? Why would there be ANY confusion?
Aren’t they following that guidance, or the law already?
We know the answer to that, several forces are not.
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They told us that the interim @EHRC guidance has been circulated. So why aren’t they making that clear to their staff here? Why would there be ANY confusion?
Aren’t they following that guidance, or the law already?
We know the answer to that, several forces are not.
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Do any female police officers and staff remember being surveyed by the NPCC @policechiefs about how THEY felt when they were told (in virtually all police force policies) that male colleagues had an ‘entitlement’ to use their changing rooms, showers and toilets based on their ‘gender identity’?
No, us neither.
Something tells us this question is NOT about the confidence of their female staff now.
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No, us neither.
Something tells us this question is NOT about the confidence of their female staff now.
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This is unbelievable and embarrassing. Welfare? Ability to carry out duties? Physical and wellbeing support? Because they’ve simply been told that men, women and sex have their ordinary biological meaning.
Does anyone remember this concern for female officers and staff after the decision to make them strip search men? No, us neither. Because there was none. They are meant to put up and shut up.
Or any consultation with women’s groups after their attempt to impose opposite sex strip searching (#StateSanctionedSexualAssault) based on self ID – and to criminalise women if we objected? No, us neither. Because there was none.
If that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about ‘priorities’, then we don’t know what will.
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Does anyone remember this concern for female officers and staff after the decision to make them strip search men? No, us neither. Because there was none. They are meant to put up and shut up.
Or any consultation with women’s groups after their attempt to impose opposite sex strip searching (#StateSanctionedSexualAssault) based on self ID – and to criminalise women if we objected? No, us neither. Because there was none.
If that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about ‘priorities’, then we don’t know what will.
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It was inevitable that hate crime would come up wasn’t it?
We wonder what crimes they envisage since the judgment? Answers on a postcard please.
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We wonder what crimes they envisage since the judgment? Answers on a postcard please.
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Our policing lead Cathy Larkman said:
“The role of the police is to enforce the law and to keep the public safe, not to act as agents of radical social change. Police officers just want to get on with their jobs, which are hard enough as it is".
"It is disturbing that the NPCC need to send out a survey before they comply with the law. The public are entitled to ask – who is in charge here? Chief Constables – or their activist staff networks?"
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“The role of the police is to enforce the law and to keep the public safe, not to act as agents of radical social change. Police officers just want to get on with their jobs, which are hard enough as it is".
"It is disturbing that the NPCC need to send out a survey before they comply with the law. The public are entitled to ask – who is in charge here? Chief Constables – or their activist staff networks?"
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"Female officers and staff were not consulted about their own privacy, dignity and safety when their police forces unlawfully decided that men had a right to enter their own workplace changing rooms and showers. Yet here we are, with police chiefs quaking in their boots before the gender ideology activists in their midst, wringing their hands and desperately trying to appease them”.
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Correction: the EHRC have issued an interim statement and a consultation is ongoing (closing date today).
However, responses from police forces to WRN refer to EHRC 'guidance' being circulated.
However, responses from police forces to WRN refer to EHRC 'guidance' being circulated.
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