The Trumpet Newspaper Issue 555 (October 6 - 19 2021)

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