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Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney, pictured, apologised after six members of her Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke were found to use racist and sexist language
A police force is spending £860,000 on discrimination training for its staff after an investigation revealing shocking racism and sexism in one of its departments.
Up to 6,000 officers at Hampshire Constabulary will receive the ground-breaking training after a full cultural audit of the force is carried out involving teams of university researchers.
The programme is the first accredited equalities and inclusion training in the UK for policing and comes after five officers were dismissed when covert recordings uncovered an array of racist, homophobic and sexist language in a specialist unit.
Olivia Pinkney of Hampshire Police says her force s lack of diversity is not ok
The Chief constable of the force where five officers have been sacked for abhorrent racist language says the police s lack of diversity is not ok .
Olivia Pinkney of Hampshire Police said she is very aware her senior leadership team team look the way they do and admitted she is concerned by the overall whiteness of the force.
The highest ranking officer from a minority background in the county is a chief inspector.
She said: [It] is a concern. If we look at the Chief Officer group of this constabulary, we are half female and have all sorts of other diverse characteristics - but we are all white.
Police service is too white, says Hampshire s chief constable after racism scandal
Five officers were sacked from the service s Serious Organised Crime Unit for using racist, sexist, and homophobic language
10 January 2021 • 5:43pm
A police force is too white, which is not OK , a chief constable has conceded in the wake of a racism scandal.
Olivia Pinkney, chief constable of Hampshire Police, admitted she is concerned by a lack of diversity in the ranks, adding she is aware her own senior leadership team look the way they do .
Chief constable Pinkney made the remarks after five officers were sacked from the service s Serious Organised Crime Unit for using racist, sexist, and homophobic language.
Cops sacked for sharing obscene images from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s wedding
Entertainment
Sun, Jan 10, 2021
The fake porn images were sent to a WhatsApp group shortly after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s wedding
As many as five police officers were sacked and removed from duty after they shared a string of explicit and highly offensive fake porn images of the British royal family.
The fake pictures were circulated online and sent to a WhatsApp group shortly after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry s nuptials took place in 2018,
BBC reported.
The cops were part of a Hampshire Police unit which had a “toxic” attitude towards ethnic minorities, immigrants and women, according to the