Black police organisation must be scrapped, say white officers

[Liffrea]

A group of white police officers is campaigning to have the National Black Police Association disbanded following last week's jailing of Met commander Ali Dizaei, a former president of the association, who was sentenced to four years for corruption.

Keith Jarrett, another former president, said: "A number of colleagues have called for the NBPA and the BPA [Black Police Association] to be wound up. I don't mean black colleagues; I mean white colleagues.

"Those police calling for the BPA to be scrapped … show an ignorance of race relations in the UK."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/fe...lice-body-call

[Loki]

A little interesting tidbit here, is that Iranians are considered "black" in the UK.

[Treffie]

I don't understand why it was set up in the first place - it's counter productive for race relations. Interesting comment here in The Times.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle7021089.ece

[Liffrea]

An interesting question would be:

if a white middle class person had written this article rather than Ms Ahuja, would it have been published?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle7021089.ece