Sauce for the Goose …

It has been reported today that one of Britain’s top Asian policewomen is suing Scotland Yard for ‘racial and gender’ discrimination after being cleared of misconduct allegations.

It appears that Superintendent Parm Sandhu, acting Chief Superintendent at the time, was suspended from normal duties in June of last year as a result of allegations that she had lobbied for support in an attempt to gain a nomination for a Queen’s Police Medal (QPM), action that is in contravention of the nomination rules for that prestigious award.

The QPM is given to serving police officers in recognition of distinguished service or outstanding courage in the line of duty and National Police Chief Council guidelines say that ‘any person can nominate any other person for an honour’. However, as with other honours awarded by the Queen, people are not expected to nominate themselves and are not meant to contribute to or know about the process, and lobbying for such an award is regarded within the police service as gross misconduct.

It is not for us to pass comment upon whether or not Superintendent Sandhu did or did not lobby colleagues in the hope of being nominated, she has already been found not guilty on that score, and if she is to be successful in her action against the Metropolitan Police Service one would expect that she will be able to provide clear and unequivocal evidence of discrimination.

In this latter respect however, she would appear to face an uphill struggle as it would appear difficult to present such a case when; the current Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service is a woman, and when Superintendent Sandhu is herself one of the most senior police officers in the Met. As of March 2018, as an acting Chief Superintendent, she was out of a total of 30,390 officers one of the eighty top ranking officers within the Metropolitan Police Service. Indeed according to Wikipedia, there were only thirty-four officers of ACPO rank above her, placing her by rank almost in the top 0.1%. Furthermore, appointments to the most senior positions within the Met — positions of Assistant Commissioner and above — are made in consultation with the Mayor of London and the Home Secretary. At the time of Superintendent Sandhu’s suspension, the Mayor of London was Sadiq Khan, a man of Asian ethnicity, and the Home Secretary was a woman, Amber Rudd. Miss Rudd has of course now been replaced as Home Secretary by Sajid Javid another individual of Asian ancestry.

The disciplinary action taken against Superintendent Sandhu was initiated by the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards and interestingly, the Assistant Commissioner responsible for Professionalism within the Met is Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball, a lady who is unlikely to want to discriminate against other women police officers on the basis of their gender.

Lastly, it is interesting to note that in 2006 Superintendent Sandhu was the recipient of an Asian Women of Achievement Award (AWA). It will probably seem incongruous to most people that the recipient of such an award, which excludes all people other than Asian women, and the awarding body of which ostensibly therefore discriminates on the basis of both race and sex, should later feel morally justified in complaining of alleged racial and sexual discrimination by her employer. Some people might regard that as rather hypocritical and be looking forward to seeing Superintendent Sandhu demonstrating integrity by renouncing the AWA award.

Indeed, police officers are not allowed to profess support for, or be members of organisations that exist to advance the interests of the indigenous White people of Britain, such organisations being demonised as ‘extreme right-wing’ or ‘racist’. Therefore, if the police service is to have any integrity at all, it would be a welcome development if the Professional Standards Directorate of the Met and other police forces, made a strict ruling that it is an act of gross misconduct where a serving police officer openly professes support for, or membership of, or accepts an award from a body that discriminates on the basis of race or gender.

If as is often alleged, ethnic minority communities cannot have confidence they are being impartially policed by even the most moderate racially conscious White police officers, how can the White people of Britain have any confidence in the impartiality of the police when non-White police officers are permitted to openly demonstrate their affinity with organisations that exist for the express purpose of advancing the ethnic interests of Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities?

What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander!

By Max Musson © 2019

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