Former highest-ranking gay police officer speaks ‘OUT’

Brian Paddick; Britain former highest-ranking gay police officer speaks ‘OUT’!


Brian Paddick; Britain former highest-ranking gay police officer speaks ‘OUT’!



Brian Paddock reveals what is wrong with today’s policing…As if some of us did not already 'know' in the gay community in Cornwall?


From the Daily Mail Newspaper!

Brian Paddick writes “One night soon after I'd joined the police service, I brought in a squaddie for drink-driving. He'd crashed into a lamp-post. When the sergeant asked for his name and address, the squaddie told him where to go.
The sergeant leaned across the desk and gave the prisoner an almighty backhander, breaking his nose and sending blood spraying across the table. The soldier never complained.

That was in the Seventies - and the police force is undoubtedly very different today.

Yet in some respects, it remains the straight, white, male-dominated, macho organisation I first joined. In many ways it has become more liberal but in others it is slipping back into its conservative and controlling past.

Nowadays, a senior officer can comment on only his or her own sphere of responsibility, and anything seen to question the Government is swiftly corrected.

There is a good reason for this Stalinist approach.

Many modern Government-supported initiatives such as asbos, ethnic quotas and Police Community Support Officers - are fundamentally flawed.
Last year I retired from the Metropolitan Police after 30 years' service. I had risen to the rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner and was Britain's most senior gay police officer.

Throughout my career, I was passionate about making a difference and determined to be open and honest at all times.
This did not go down well with top brass and would ultimately result in my resignation.”

Read the full article here:-
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=523568&in_page_id=1770

PinkPasty:-Until police dishonesty & corruption is ‘genuinely’ investigated, and that’s not going to happen with the ineffectual ‘Independent Police Complaints Commission’ which simply blind-eyes complaints regarding police homophobia !!!

The police today are an organisation ‘this’ gay man in Cornwall has NO Faith or Trust in directly due to the conduct of Cornwall police officers previously named and/or identified on this blog.