{"id":111902,"date":"2021-02-09T03:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=111902"},"modified":"2021-02-09T03:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:13:48","slug":"neil-basu-calls-for-positive-discrimination-to-make-police-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/neil-basu-calls-for-positive-discrimination-to-make-police-diverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Basu calls for positive discrimination to make police diverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Anti-terror chief Neil Basu clashes with Priti Patel as he calls for positive discrimination to make police more diverse<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>UK head of counter-terrorism policing\u00a0Neil Basu calls for positive discrimination<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He asked\u00a0Home Office to legalise move to ensure ethnic minority police recruits<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mr Basu raised issue at National Policing Board meeting chaired by Priti Patel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s head of counter-terrorism policing has urged the\u00a0<span>Home Office to consider relaxing positive discrimination laws to ensure police can hire more BAME recruits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Neil Basu raised the issue at the last National Policing Board meeting chaired by the home secretary Priti Patel, who reportedly stood firmly against the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Minutes from the meeting seen by The Times revealed that Basu told the board it\u00a0<\/span>&#8216;may be worth looking at the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 around positive discrimination if recruitment is to increase diversity at pace&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/02\/09\/02\/39050524-9238961-image-a-108_1612837267104.jpg\" height=\"374\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner and Head of Counter Terrorism Policing Neil Basu<\/p>\n<p><span>Recent figures reported that police forces all across the UK had failed to hire a representative number of\u00a0<\/span>black, Asian and minority ethnic police recruits despite a high number of BAME applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Across England and Wales only 7.5 per cent of UK police are BAME, showing an underrepresentation of the 14.5 per cent of the population from BAME backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Kit Malthouse, the policing minister, quickly shot down Mr Basu&#8217;s suggestion during the meeting, with Priti Patel also among those who rejected the idea of changing the Equality Act 2010 in favour of ethnic minority candidates, The Times reports.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/02\/09\/02\/39050520-9238961-image-a-107_1612837257795.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Home Secretary Priti Patel during a foot patrol with new police recruits around Bishop&#8217;s Stortford, Hertfordshire. January 28, 2021<\/p>\n<p>However the idea does have precedent; when the Police Service of Northern Ireland formed in 2001 a positive discrimination model saw a temporary change in the law to allow one Catholic officer recruited for every Protestant officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the\u00a0Equality Act 2010 positive discrimination, recruiting or promoting a person solely because they have a relevant protected characteristic, is illegal in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>This is also true of setting\u00a0quotas to recruit a particular proportion of people with protected characteristics, meaning the police is unable to set quantitative targets for diversity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A government source told The Times that they have aims to diversify policing but said &#8216;the whole problem about positive discrimination is it&#8217;s not the best candidates for the job. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s illegal.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9238961\/Neil-Basu-clashes-Priti-Patel-calls-positive-discrimination-make-police-diverse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-terror chief Neil Basu clashes with Priti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neil Basu calls for positive discrimination to make police diverse - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/neil-basu-calls-for-positive-discrimination-to-make-police-diverse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neil Basu calls for positive discrimination to make police diverse - 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