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.
Updated photos of the Police Investigation Centre, Basingstoke..March 22nd 2017.Photography by Sarah Gaunt taken 22.03.17. MEMBERS of a police unit who have been branded as demonstrating “shameful” behaviour have been dismissed from the service after they were covertly recorded making ‘offensive and disrespectful’ remarks. Six officers at Hampshire Constabulary’s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) based at the Northern Police Investigation Centre, in Basingstoke, were found guilty of gross misconduct after they were recorded using ‘racist, sexist and homophobic’ language. Today, following a lengthy misconduct hearing, five of the six officers were dismissed from the force without notice for breaching the Standards of Professional Behaviour.