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.
Crime gangs grew under watch of racist and homophobic police unit
An anonymous complaint about Hampshire’s Serious Organised Crime Unit prompted an investigation and its office was bugged
8 January 2021 • 8:17pm
Serious organised crime groups expanded their empires while police officers in a “toxic” specialist unit traded racist, sexist, homophobic and ableist insults, a report has revealed.
Five police officers from Hampshire’s Serious Organised Crime Unit have been sacked after their “shameful” conversations were exposed by covert recording devices hidden in their office.
The county is home to more than 40 recognised crime gangs, and while these officers were making their “abhorrent” comments, groups in the area were becoming more dangerous – using firearms, engaging in child sexual abuse, and trafficking people, according to a 2019 report.
Olivia Pinkney, photographed at Hampshire Police headquarters, Netley. MEMBERS of a ‘toxic’ police unit who were sacked after covert recordings caught a catalogue of racist, sexist and homophobic remarks have been criticised for their “outdated and offensive views”. Police chiefs have welcomed a decision to dismiss three members of Hampshire Constabulary’s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) based at the Northern Police Investigation Centre, in Basingstoke. Detective Sergeant Oliver Lage, Detective Sergeant Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been discharged from the constabulary without notice. Retired Detective Inspector Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman would have been dismissed if they had not already left the service. The sixth officer, PC Andrew Ferguson was given a final written warning.
A South African officer in a toxic specialist police unit became so caught up in the racist culture that he failed to say anything when his best friend was racially abused, a disciplinary hearing was told today.
PC Craig Bannerman was said to be extremely close to the only black officer in the squad, Detective Constable Solomon Koranteng, who was the target of numerous offensive comments.
But when a colleague began singing the Bob Marley song Buffalo Soldier at DC Koranteng and telling him he had been flown from Africa in a crate, PC Bannerman said nothing.
Six officers at Hampshire Constabulary s Serious Organised Crime Unit (Socu) were all found guilty of gross misconduct after they were recorded using racist, sexist and homophobic language.