West Yorkshire Police Hiring - lost the plot!?

[slogen51]

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.

[Nighthawke]

What happened to giving jobs to the most suitable/best candidates? It should not matter what a person's characteristics are - if they are unsuitable they should not get the job.

[paddyboy]

Lefty woke sh1thousery everywhere, it seems

[Condor68]

I thought better of you paddy missing an 1 for a 1 my keyboard must be iffy as well. I still believe in go for a job and you might get it .Personally but I know lots of young ones who also just manage to find jobs and loads who never apply because its their right not to work.Will PM you one some thing needing a bit of advice.

[Hurn]

Tim Davies was talking about it a couple of weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjtkoHaIz-o

They did it in the RAF too thanks to the morons in the MoD, and that also massively backfired, so much so that they had to ask the rejected white males to reapply.

Unbelievable that vital services like the Police and Military are looking to put under qualified people in jobs merely for the sake of quotas.