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"Met suppresses protesting officers"

A former black officer in UK says charges against him were discriminatory.

A former black Metropolitan Police officer who has just been cleared of allegations of sexual abuse says the charges were part of a larger attack by Scotland Yard against him for protesting the entity's discriminatory approach towards its ethnic minority staff.

 Gurpal Virdi was cleared of all charges over an incident happened 30 years ago. The jury didn’t rule out a conspiracy behind the case.

Virdi said the case was brought to punish him for speaking out while serving in Met. He stressed that Met targets its black and Asian officers who complain of harassment.

In an interview with The Guardian, he said:”There is a department in the Met which has a licence to act against its critics. He noted that the department is a cancer of racism that needs to be cut out and nobody has the courage to do it.”

This is not the first time that Virdi is cleared of similar accusations.

According to the media reports:” He was sacked in 2000 for sending racist hate mail to black and Asian colleagues, but he was reinstated after winning a case against the Met later that year.”

His case unveiled for the first time the plight of ethnic minority officers in UK.

"The bizarre case of Gurpal Verdi, scandalous as it may be, is not in any way unusual, apart from his perseverance in fighting his adversaries and  seeking justice. His case stands as yet  more hard proof that, contrary to the assumption most people make, the system is justice entirely broken throughout the Atlantic world, with the security apparatus largely free to do whatever its members  like to others and even to their own, without fear of consequences," London-based International Lawyer, Barry Grossman told Press TV.

He noted that the political establishment everywhere is now entirely focused on generating endless reams of new corporatist legislation to satisfy lobbyists adding the legislative branch of government long ago abandoned its primary role in carrying out oversight of the bureaucratic branch of government.

"The rule of law is dead and buried. We now live in an era dominated by policy and by the petty bureaucrats who implement it. While we still nominally have mechanisms which are meant to ensure accountability, mechanisms like, for example,  internal investigation units and  the Ombudsman’s Office,  those mechanism have been fully compromised by legislative restrictions and have turned  investigators mostly into toothless tigers, while the budgets for operating these complaints mechanisms have constantly been reduced," he said.

 

 

 

 

 


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