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Hampshire Police Staff Survey Shows Pressure Over Mandatory Diversity Training
A staff survey at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary found one in seven officers felt controlled and pressured after mandatory diversity training. The findings emerged after the force's arrest of Henry Nowak shortly before his death.
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A staff survey at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary found that one in seven officers felt controlled and pressured after completing mandatory diversity training on racism, unconscious bias, and privilege. The survey, reported by The Times, also showed that a fifth of respondents feared being rejected for saying the wrong thing.
Guidance on the force's website states that officers should treat people differently based on ethnicity.
The survey results surfaced after officers handcuffed Henry Nowak, 18, while he lay dying from stab wounds. The force had arrested him for alleged racial abuse. The chief constable issued an apology for the officers' actions. The same official rejected the term two-tier policing and said officers work to serve all communities.
A spokesman for the force said three of the officers remain in service and one has resigned. All four are being treated as witnesses in an ongoing independent investigation.
Farage said the division will get far worse and described events in Southampton as the beginning. He warned that large numbers of young white males may view police as prejudiced. The Prime Minister rejected claims of two-tier policing and accused Farage of politicising the murder to create grievance and division.
