from The Christian Institute
Police Scotland is under fire for spending over £7,200 on an LGBT panel, which suggested that officers should be forced to use ‘preferred pronouns’.
The citizens’ panel, which was recruited by LGBT networks on Police Scotland’s behalf, claimed that officers should “ask for pronouns and understand that people may need to be addressed as something different than their legal ID”.
In addition, they claimed that “officers more prone to anti-LGBTQIA+ views” should be “integrated thoroughly and compulsorily in the pro-LGBTQIA+ activities”.
A total of 20 out of the 27 panel members received £360 in gift vouchers, the maximum amount that could be received through attendance, amounting to an overall cost of at least £7,200.
‘Identity politics’
Dr Martin Gallagher, a former Police Scotland superintendent, stated: “Maybe asking for the description of an assailant should be a cop’s priority when speaking to a witness, not the latest fad.”
He remarked that if the police “focused on these basics, rather than ploughing resources and cash from dwindling government allocations into disputed causes, maybe we could be teaching our cops about crime investigation rather than what different rainbow flags mean today, which so often changes tomorrow”.
Dave Marshall, a former chief superintendent at the College of Policing, added: “By engaging in identity politics of this nature, Police Scotland risks reinforcing the perception that it is prioritising one group over others.”