- Conference
- 2018 Police & Justice Service Group Conference
- Date
- 8 June 2018
- Decision
- Carried
Since the advent of austerity, equalities and diversity have become less of a priority in the police service. Training where it exists, is no longer the quality that we would expect and our members have suffered as a consequence. Prior to 2010, equalities training was seen as the bedrock of delivering a fair and discrimination free service. Staff were trained to a level that enabled them to have sufficient understanding of how issues effected both themselves and the public. The implementation of the McPherson report recommendations saw the interaction with the black community improve considerably. Eight years of austerity have eroded much of that good work.
Conference therefore instructs the Service Group Executive to:
1)Make contact with the College of Policing to ascertain its plans for equality and diversity training;
2)Once information from the college has been forthcoming, to seek to be involved in the development of said training;
3)Write to the National Police Chiefs Council to seek their support in raising the profile and importance of equalities training within the police service.