The Trumpet Newspaper Issue 555 (October 6 - 19 2021)
Beaten and detained. Metropolitan Police celebrates black officers
Beaten and detained.
Metropolitan Police celebrates black officers
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OCTOBER 6 - <strong>19</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
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officers.<br />
He now hopes to inspire other<br />
black Londoners to join up. PS Gayle,<br />
who works in Specialist Operations,<br />
said: “I’m proud to be black and<br />
following in the footsteps of my dad<br />
and my great-uncle.<br />
“When I was a kid they inspired<br />
me to want to protect people and to<br />
take pride in my Caribbean heritage. I<br />
believe that you can’t be what you<br />
can’t see, so every day I go to work<br />
knowing I am potentially giving other<br />
young black people the courage to<br />
pursue their dreams.”<br />
Another officer who will share his<br />
story, PC Bilal Sani-Mohammed, a<br />
black Londoner working in the Met’s<br />
PC Bilal Sani-Mohammed<br />
Professionalism department.<br />
PC Sani-Mohammed said: “I love<br />
being a police officer and serving<br />
London every day. Currently, I’m part<br />
of the Deputy Commissioner’s<br />
Delivery Group, where I work to<br />
improve the Met’s relationship with<br />
our many communities. It’s a great<br />
role, where I’ve directly influenced<br />
change from within the organisation<br />
and for my community too.”<br />
This month will see a range of<br />
internal and external communityfocused<br />
initiatives to mark the <strong>2021</strong><br />
event, including one organised by the<br />
Met’s Black Police Networking<br />
Strand on Thursday 7 <strong>October</strong>. “Black<br />
History in Policing” will involve a<br />
special exhibition and senior black<br />
officers speaking about their journeys<br />
at Scotland Yard.<br />
Meanwhile the Met’s Black Police<br />
Association is also putting on a<br />
variety of talks and special events,<br />
including a probationer conducting an<br />
interview with a long-serving black<br />
special constable who has now served<br />
for an incredible 42 years.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are more than 5,000 officers<br />
from under-represented groups –<br />
more than half of all the officers in<br />
England and Wales – now working in<br />
the Met – 450 of whom joined in the<br />
last financial year. Around 1,000 of<br />
those are black.<br />
While the Met is pleased at the<br />
progress made to date towards<br />
increasing representation in the<br />
workforce, it acknowledges there is<br />
still much work to be done to achieve<br />
its aim of fully reflecting the diversity<br />
of all the capital’s many communities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> force’s latest recruitment<br />
campaign, ‘Now More than Ever’,<br />
which launched over summer, hopes<br />
to aid this process. It foregrounded<br />
ambassadors from a range of ethnic<br />
groups who are enjoying varied and<br />
successful careers in the Met, and<br />
shared their personal experiences, in a<br />
bid to both reassure and encourage<br />
other members of under-represented<br />
communities to join up.<br />
This followed the announcement<br />
earlier in the year of the bold<br />
recruitment aspiration for Black,<br />
Asian and Multiple Ethnic Heritage<br />
officers to make up 40% of all new<br />
officers recruited from April 2022.<br />
Met Commissioner Cressida Dick<br />
has previously expressed her personal<br />
commitment to this goal. She said:<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Met already has so many<br />
brilliant black officers and staff,<br />
enjoying and contributing to a wide<br />
variety of roles. I want to increase<br />
their numbers and ensure that they all<br />
really thrive, together with all our<br />
colleagues, in a healthy and inclusive<br />
workplace.”<br />
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