Scotland’s police union has accused the outgoing chief constable of making cops’ jobs harder by branding the force institutionally racist
Scotland’s police union has accused the outgoing chief constable of making cops’ jobs harder by branding the force institutionally racist.
The chair-man, whose organisation represents most of Scotland’s 16,600 officers, said: “The use of the phrase institutionally racist is one that has deeply offended and upset them and they do not recognise themselves in that way.” But Steele, who recently stepped down as general secretary of the police federation, accused the chief of “extreme sabotage” that will “devastate the gossamer-thin remnants of any morale in the police service”.
He also accepted his public admission that the service was “institutionally racist and discriminatory” could have come sooner but added that the first step to change was acknowledging the issue.
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