West Yorkshire Police Hiring - lost the plot!?
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 6:06 pm
From the Daily Telegraph
I had to read this twice it is unbelievable, assuming the reporting is accurate
Senior officers in West Yorkshire Police intervened to ensure that an ethnic minority candidate who failed her interview was given the job, according to leaked documents seen by The Telegraph.
The female officer was initially rejected but eventually given a post after her case was taken up by the force’s chief officer team, which includes Chief Constable John Robins.
To get around her failure, West Yorkshire Police then scrapped interviews for officers transferring to the force, the documents show.
The move will increase pressure on the force, one of the UK’s largest, which has already been accused of prioritising ethnic minority candidates with “appalling racist hiring” practices.
West Yorkshire Police used the policy change to offer jobs to six other ethnic minority officers who had failed their interviews or had been rejected from shortlists in the previous eight months
Eight white officers who had been rejected at the interview stage were also offered jobs as a consequence
Last month, Chief Constable Robins said that he stood by previous comments where he said that he wanted discrimination against white candidates to be legal.
I had to read this twice it is unbelievable, assuming the reporting is accurate
Senior officers in West Yorkshire Police intervened to ensure that an ethnic minority candidate who failed her interview was given the job, according to leaked documents seen by The Telegraph.
The female officer was initially rejected but eventually given a post after her case was taken up by the force’s chief officer team, which includes Chief Constable John Robins.
To get around her failure, West Yorkshire Police then scrapped interviews for officers transferring to the force, the documents show.
The move will increase pressure on the force, one of the UK’s largest, which has already been accused of prioritising ethnic minority candidates with “appalling racist hiring” practices.
West Yorkshire Police used the policy change to offer jobs to six other ethnic minority officers who had failed their interviews or had been rejected from shortlists in the previous eight months
Eight white officers who had been rejected at the interview stage were also offered jobs as a consequence
Last month, Chief Constable Robins said that he stood by previous comments where he said that he wanted discrimination against white candidates to be legal.
