Police officers will be asked to declare their sexuality, according to a new paper to be produced by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
The policy, which will be presented to the equality committee of the Metropolitan Police Authority, is expected to set out plans to gain an accurate quota of gay and lesbian officers in the police force.
The document was revealed by the Daily Mail. It says, “Data on sexual orientation is not currently held and therefore no meaningful analysis can be undertaken, to address this, a self-service facility will be available in July which will enable staff to self-disclose their sexual orientation.”
It refers to a “disproportion between numbers of gay officers and numbers of homosexuals in the population” and goes on to say that “It has been estimated that approximately ten per cent of the population is gay or lesbian.”
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1 omasbaer // Apr 6, 2006 at 8:11 pm
we can also research the percentage of nutcases in the general population in order to have that reflected in the police force too, eh?
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