Scotland Yard has spent almost £450 million on promoting ‘equality and diversity’ in the past three years. In the past year alone £187 million – six per cent of the Met budget – went on ‘equalities-related expenditure’.
This included recruitment, training and research within minority communities, as well as crime fighting and prevention.
It covered not just race issues, but those of gender, faith, disability, age and sexuality. Since 2003, more than £21million has been spent on interpreters’ fees.
However, new figures show the number of race-discrimination claims against officers made by colleagues or the public rose by 24 per cent from 259 in 2003/4 to 320 in 2005/6.
This week, in the latest case, Pc Wayne Bell was ordered to resign for making monkey noises at a suspect in custody at Plumstead police.
“I prefer white men’s country”
Saint Louis – “If they had left me in the white men’s country, I was going to grow up, play with my friends, study, work and return to Senegal with lots of money to help my family”, regrets young Ismaila, timidly looking at his illegal migrant father.
Nine-year-old Ismaila Diop, repatriated from Spain last week, was the youngest of several thousands of Senegalese illegal migrants flown back over the past month from the Spanish Canary islands under a provisional deal between Madrid and Dakar.
Accompanied by his father, Alioune Diop, 31, Ismaila came awkwardly down the steps of the Spanish-chartered plane. His appearance caused a stir among the airport workers, medical staff and security forces awaiting the returnees.
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