Members of the Bangladesh Caterers' Association, the Ethnic Catering Alliance and Keith Vaz MP, have presented a joint letter of petition to Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, at Downing Street.
The petition presentation followed the successful Day of Action Rally led by Bangladesh Caterers' Association and the Ethnic Catering Alliance in Trafalgar Square where 10,000 supporters from the UK's Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese and Turkish catering business communities gathered to protest against the new policies introduced by the Border and Immigration Agency.
The handing over of the petition to Downing Street precedes the debate on the immigration points based system, due to take place this week.
The petition detailed demands of the Ethnic Catering Alliance, calling on the Government to recognise the unique characteristic of ethnic catering in the UK and to put the occupations in these businesses on the Occupations Shortage List.
They also call for a stop to all disruptive Border and Immigration Agency actions and an urgent recognition of the industry as an area of skills shortage, with a relaxation of the rules to allow for urgent recruitment.
The Ethnic Catering Alliance also implores the Government to recognise the unique language characteristic of ethnic catering in the UK and that it work with the communities by investing in training programmes.
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This would resolve long-term labour problems in British ethnic catering businesses and provide employment opportunities for local people.
The Ethnic Catering Alliance has further requested the Prime Minister to meet with them to discuss and implement a fairer system that does not further jeopardise or disrupt the UK's ethnic catering industry.
Posted by: Shamas, Manchester on 9:59am Wed 23 Apr 08
All the caterer in this Country either from ethnic community or not should start employing local people for their businesses and train them properly and also pay them fair wages.
If that is done there will be NO need to recruit people from abroad, and further more they will not have the shortages as they seems to claim.
Employing "cheap" labour is bad for catering business, there are plenty of good workers in this country. The language is a bad excuse to put to the Government.
All the caterer in this Country either from ethnic community or not should start employing local people for their businesses and train them properly and also pay them fair wages.
If that is done there will be NO need to recruit people from abroad, and further more they will not have the shortages as they seems to claim.
Employing "cheap" labour is bad for catering business, there are plenty of good workers in this country. The language is a bad excuse to put to the Government.
Posted by: tony coyle, reading on 5:31pm Fri 4 Jul 08
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, "please let me be an asian mp" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball "would" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he's english, "vas you fat turd, never in a million years" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed "new labour" up way back then.
you look at the mp's chambers, it's like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp's. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better.
take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn't know if he's in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. "has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in" have these scumbag mp's nothing to do with it?
jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up?
sack them all, let the captains of industry run "gb plc" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown's donkey's. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite's have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, "please let me be an asian mp" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball "would" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he's english, "vas you fat turd, never in a million years" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed "new labour" up way back then.
you look at the mp's chambers, it's like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp's. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better.
take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn't know if he's in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. "has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in" have these scumbag mp's nothing to do with it?
jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up?
sack them all, let the captains of industry run "gb plc" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown's donkey's. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite's have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com
[quote][bold]tony coyle[/bold] wrote:
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, \"please let me be an asian mp\" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball \"would\" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he\'s english, \"vas you fat turd, never in a million years\" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed \"new labour\" up way back then. you look at the mp\'s chambers, it\'s like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp\'s. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better. take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn\'t know if he\'s in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. \"has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in\" have these scumbag mp\'s nothing to do with it? jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up? sack them all, let the captains of industry run \"gb plc\" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown\'s donkey\'s. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite\'s have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com [/quote] you must have a really small reproductive organ Tony, how can you be so bitter..? Say what you will of the politicians, but at grassroots, the UK wouldn't stand where it does now had the gates of immigration not been open for the last 50 years. You're a sad sad man, i feel sorry for you in your world of undoubtedly imported goods.
tony coyle wrote:
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, \"please let me be an asian mp\" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball \"would\" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he\'s english, \"vas you fat turd, never in a million years\" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed \"new labour\" up way back then. you look at the mp\'s chambers, it\'s like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp\'s. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better. take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn\'t know if he\'s in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. \"has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in\" have these scumbag mp\'s nothing to do with it? jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up? sack them all, let the captains of industry run \"gb plc\" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown\'s donkey\'s. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite\'s have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com
you must have a really small reproductive organ Tony, how can you be so bitter..? Say what you will of the politicians, but at grassroots, the UK wouldn't stand where it does now had the gates of immigration not been open for the last 50 years. You're a sad sad man, i feel sorry for you in your world of undoubtedly imported goods.
Posted by: tony coyle, reading on 8:05pm Fri 12 Sep 08
Some other interesting facts about Keith Vaz:
- In March 1989, he led a protest in Leicester against Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. At this event, Vaz addressed 3,000 Muslim demonstrators, stating “today we celebrate one of the great days in the history of Islam and Great Britain” and attacked the Labour Party as a “godless party.”
- In February 1990, he wrote in The Guardian newspaper urging Salman Rushdie not to publish the book in paperback because “there is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech”.
- On Labour winning power in 1997, he became a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Government’s Law Officers;
- In 1999 he was promoted, becoming Minister for Europe in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and was tipped to become a Cabinet Minister.
- In 2006, Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) voted to resurrect the Black Socialist Society (BSS). As part of this, the party set up an Ethnic Minority Taskforce. Tony Blair appointed Vaz to chair this taskforce. When membership of the BSS exceeded 2,500 in early 2007, the society qualified for its own seat on the NEC. Vaz was elected to this post on March 10 2007.
- In February 2000 the Parliamentary standards watchdog Elizabeth Filkin was requested to investigate allegations of undisclosed payments to Vaz from businessmen in his constituency. In March 2001, the Filkin report cleared Vaz of nine of the 28 allegations of various financial wrongdoings, but Elizabeth Filkin accused Vaz of blocking her investigation into eighteen of the allegations. He was also censured for one allegation - that he failed to register two payments worth £4,500 in total from Sarosh Zaiwalla, a solicitor whom he recommended for a peerage several years later.
- Filkin announced in the same month a new inquiry which would focus on whether or not a company connected to Vaz received a donation from a charitable foundation run by the Hinduja brothers. The results of the inquiry were published in 2002 and it was concluded that Vaz had “committed serious breaches of the Code of Conduct and a contempt of the House” and it was recommended that he be suspended from the House of Commons for one month which gave him plenty of time to concentrate on his profitable sidelines.
- Keith Vaz was also a director of the company General Mediterranean Holdings’ owned by the Anglo-Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi, who had in the past hired British politicians Lords Steel and Lamont as directors. Vaz resigned his post as director when he became Minister for Europe, but it was later discovered that he had remained in contact with Auchi and had made enquiries on his behalf over a French extradition warrant, Auchi even calling Vaz at home to ask the minister for advice.
to nick rahman, ouch, that wasn't nice!
still i defend your right so give an opinion about me. would i get the same right of freedom to express in any of your country's.
i stand by my remarks about slimeball vas, well known as the most corrupt mp there is. as you can see above,
greaseball "mullah vas" tells 3,000 of your lot, the labour party is godless, why has this maggot got in at the top. why is he telling another first generation jew, to let undesireable asians/africans in, what business is it of the uk's, where exactly do we fit in?.
the scots should have done a better job in aden. vas is lucky to be out of a shithole like aden, i am dammed if this asian has the nerve to tell us to take more trash like him in.
the problem with you people is, you think you can do what you like in the uk, you hate the fact nobody would give a monkey's if you all upped and left. there would be more than enough free transport, from every european country, to take you back to your democratic hellholes. why you people can't see the resentment you cause to free loving people astounds me.
would you lot welcome us into your houses uninvited, **** on your carpets, and expect you to clean it up, do as the romans or **** off, take vaz with you.
another visit from special branch i wonder, a waste of time over ray lewis, lol !
tony@eng1and.com
Some other interesting facts about Keith Vaz:
- In March 1989, he led a protest in Leicester against Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. At this event, Vaz addressed 3,000 Muslim demonstrators, stating “today we celebrate one of the great days in the history of Islam and Great Britain” and attacked the Labour Party as a “godless party.”
- In February 1990, he wrote in The Guardian newspaper urging Salman Rushdie not to publish the book in paperback because “there is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech”.
- On Labour winning power in 1997, he became a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Government’s Law Officers;
- In 1999 he was promoted, becoming Minister for Europe in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and was tipped to become a Cabinet Minister.
- In 2006, Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) voted to resurrect the Black Socialist Society (BSS). As part of this, the party set up an Ethnic Minority Taskforce. Tony Blair appointed Vaz to chair this taskforce. When membership of the BSS exceeded 2,500 in early 2007, the society qualified for its own seat on the NEC. Vaz was elected to this post on March 10 2007.
- In February 2000 the Parliamentary standards watchdog Elizabeth Filkin was requested to investigate allegations of undisclosed payments to Vaz from businessmen in his constituency. In March 2001, the Filkin report cleared Vaz of nine of the 28 allegations of various financial wrongdoings, but Elizabeth Filkin accused Vaz of blocking her investigation into eighteen of the allegations. He was also censured for one allegation - that he failed to register two payments worth £4,500 in total from Sarosh Zaiwalla, a solicitor whom he recommended for a peerage several years later.
- Filkin announced in the same month a new inquiry which would focus on whether or not a company connected to Vaz received a donation from a charitable foundation run by the Hinduja brothers. The results of the inquiry were published in 2002 and it was concluded that Vaz had “committed serious breaches of the Code of Conduct and a contempt of the House” and it was recommended that he be suspended from the House of Commons for one month which gave him plenty of time to concentrate on his profitable sidelines.
- Keith Vaz was also a director of the company General Mediterranean Holdings’ owned by the Anglo-Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi, who had in the past hired British politicians Lords Steel and Lamont as directors. Vaz resigned his post as director when he became Minister for Europe, but it was later discovered that he had remained in contact with Auchi and had made enquiries on his behalf over a French extradition warrant, Auchi even calling Vaz at home to ask the minister for advice.
to nick rahman, ouch, that wasn't nice!
still i defend your right so give an opinion about me. would i get the same right of freedom to express in any of your country's.
i stand by my remarks about slimeball vas, well known as the most corrupt mp there is. as you can see above,
greaseball "mullah vas" tells 3,000 of your lot, the labour party is godless, why has this maggot got in at the top. why is he telling another first generation jew, to let undesireable asians/africans in, what business is it of the uk's, where exactly do we fit in?.
the scots should have done a better job in aden. vas is lucky to be out of a shithole like aden, i am dammed if this asian has the nerve to tell us to take more trash like him in.
the problem with you people is, you think you can do what you like in the uk, you hate the fact nobody would give a monkey's if you all upped and left. there would be more than enough free transport, from every european country, to take you back to your democratic hellholes. why you people can't see the resentment you cause to free loving people astounds me.
would you lot welcome us into your houses uninvited, **** on your carpets, and expect you to clean it up, do as the romans or **** off, take vaz with you.
another visit from special branch i wonder, a waste of time over ray lewis, lol !
tony@eng1and.com
Posted by: Martin, suffolk on 4:44pm Tue 16 Sep 08
[quote][bold]tony coyle[/bold] wrote:
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, \"please let me be an asian mp\" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball \"would\" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he\'s english, \"vas you fat turd, never in a million years\" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed \"new labour\" up way back then. you look at the mp\'s chambers, it\'s like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp\'s. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better. take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn\'t know if he\'s in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. \"has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in\" have these scumbag mp\'s nothing to do with it? jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up? sack them all, let the captains of industry run \"gb plc\" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown\'s donkey\'s. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite\'s have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com [/quote] Tony....do you vote BNP?
tony coyle wrote:
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, \"please let me be an asian mp\" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball \"would\" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he\'s english, \"vas you fat turd, never in a million years\" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed \"new labour\" up way back then. you look at the mp\'s chambers, it\'s like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp\'s. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better. take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn\'t know if he\'s in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. \"has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in\" have these scumbag mp\'s nothing to do with it? jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up? sack them all, let the captains of industry run \"gb plc\" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown\'s donkey\'s. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite\'s have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com
Posted by: tony coyle, reading berkshire on 8:33pm Sat 20 Sep 08
once again keith vas, this "anti british, ethnic parasite" is at it. this jumped up turd, hates england so much his "latest scam" is to dare to corrupt our legal system.
"it's not our fault your a backward greedy yemini asian" this is not the yemin, or some shithole any you people have just come from. most of us don't make the sort of money any of you do, but you still want more, for jobs none of you are up to, jobs you all have over better men !
keith vaz, tarique ghaffur, shabhir hussain, ali dizaei, yasmin rehman, and the rest of you freeloader's should be fired a.s.p.
the "collective scam" these top cops are trying, proves they were not up to the job in the first place. "possitive discrimination" got them "all" where, it did, and they know it !
i don't think for a minute, sir ian blair is a racist, this is his problem, too **** pc. hopefully he will see what 99% of the country does, or at least non londoners.
blair should now see these people for what they are, it should be our way, or leave their jobs, and back to their homelands, or the scams and corruption at the top, will continue !
you can't take the like's of vaz and company from asia and expect them to behave like decent civilized european's.
these people have no honour, no ethics, no decency, they certainly have no loyalty to the country gave them anything. i feel sorry for ian blair and the rest of our british cops, these people are draging us into a banana rebublic, it's high time they were all slung out. i feel the winds chaning, they deserve everything they have coming, we are all **** off by these backward people, why would anyone stay where they were not wanted, they know it, we know it, life is too short to listen to asians whinging, just **** of anywhere more to your liking.
vaz has the nerve to ask the high court to adjourn proceedings against another hard done by asian/iranian. the man is a convicted fraudster, a friend of ali disael. why, because once again racism and bias. this particular iranian just happens to be behind the £1.2 mill claim by the hurt top cops above.
vaz is at the top, ali dezael at the top. they wonder why the majority are sick to death of asians at the top, backhanders, corruption, destruction of our system by them would not cross their minds.
vaz will face a second parliamentary inquiry if a complaint is made, i take it that includes me, so count me in yemini fatboy!
tony@eng1and.com
once again keith vas, this "anti british, ethnic parasite" is at it. this jumped up turd, hates england so much his "latest scam" is to dare to corrupt our legal system.
"it's not our fault your a backward greedy yemini asian" this is not the yemin, or some shithole any you people have just come from. most of us don't make the sort of money any of you do, but you still want more, for jobs none of you are up to, jobs you all have over better men !
keith vaz, tarique ghaffur, shabhir hussain, ali dizaei, yasmin rehman, and the rest of you freeloader's should be fired a.s.p.
the "collective scam" these top cops are trying, proves they were not up to the job in the first place. "possitive discrimination" got them "all" where, it did, and they know it !
i don't think for a minute, sir ian blair is a racist, this is his problem, too **** pc. hopefully he will see what 99% of the country does, or at least non londoners.
blair should now see these people for what they are, it should be our way, or leave their jobs, and back to their homelands, or the scams and corruption at the top, will continue !
you can't take the like's of vaz and company from asia and expect them to behave like decent civilized european's.
these people have no honour, no ethics, no decency, they certainly have no loyalty to the country gave them anything. i feel sorry for ian blair and the rest of our british cops, these people are draging us into a banana rebublic, it's high time they were all slung out. i feel the winds chaning, they deserve everything they have coming, we are all **** off by these backward people, why would anyone stay where they were not wanted, they know it, we know it, life is too short to listen to asians whinging, just **** of anywhere more to your liking.
vaz has the nerve to ask the high court to adjourn proceedings against another hard done by asian/iranian. the man is a convicted fraudster, a friend of ali disael. why, because once again racism and bias. this particular iranian just happens to be behind the £1.2 mill claim by the hurt top cops above.
vaz is at the top, ali dezael at the top. they wonder why the majority are sick to death of asians at the top, backhanders, corruption, destruction of our system by them would not cross their minds.
vaz will face a second parliamentary inquiry if a complaint is made, i take it that includes me, so count me in yemini fatboy!
Posted by: tony coyle, reading berkshire on 4:23pm Wed 24 Sep 08
ASIANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE CORRUPT, IT'S OFFICIAL, NOT BEFORE TIME THE TIDE IS TURNING !
A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family backgrounds.
The document, which has been seen by the Guardian, has caused outrage among ethnic minorities within the force, who have labelled it racist and proof that there is a gulf in understanding between the police force and the wider Muslim community. The document was written as an attempt to investigate why complaints of misconduct and corruption against Asian officers are 10 times higher than against their white colleagues.
The main conclusions of the study, commissioned by the Directorate of Professional Standards and written by an Asian detective chief inspector, stated: "Asian officers and in particular Pakistani Muslim officers are under greater pressure from the family, the extended family ... and their community against that of their white colleagues to engage in activity that might lead to misconduct or criminality."
It recommended that Asian officers needed special anti-corruption training and is now being considered by a working party of senior staff.
The report argued that British Pakistanis live in a cash culture in which "assisting your extended family is considered a duty" and in an environment in which large amounts of money are loaned between relatives and friends.
The leaking of the report comes at a time when the Met needs the cooperation and trust of the Muslim community more than ever and as the force tries to contain the fallout from last week's anti-terrorist raid in Forest Gate in which a man was shot. The first version was considered so inflammatory when it was shown to representatives from the staff associations for black, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim officers, that it had to be toned down. There are 31,000 officers in the Met - 7%, or 2,170, are black and minority ethnic; among these an estimated 300 are Muslim.
One Muslim officer with the Met said: "It is like saying black officers are more likely to be muggers. Today it is Muslim officers who are treated as the Uncle Toms. How can they say to the Muslim community 'trust us', when they don't even trust their own Muslim officers."
Ahmanrahman Jafar, vice-chairman of the legal affairs committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, said it was shortsighted of the Met to be alienating its Muslim officers at such a sensitive time.
"We've got about 1,000 wrongful anti-terrorist arrests since 9/11 and I believe that if Muslim officers were involved in looking through that intelligence and understanding the context, we would have far greater efficiency in the police force and a far greater prosecution rate," he said. To support its conclusions, the report gives examples of cases in which Pakistani Muslim officers have been accused of corruption and misconduct. According to its critics, the report gives insufficient weight to the motivation of those who made the complaints or issues of institutional racism.
Superintendent Dal Babu, chairman of the Association of Muslim Officers, said the report had racist undertones. "We are gravely concerned about its contents and the message it sends to recruits and potential recruits," he said.
George Rhoden, chair of the Metropolitan Black Police Association added. "We have made it clear that we disagreed totally with the conclusions ... the whole thing needs to be researched in a much more comprehensive way."
tony@eng1and.com
ASIANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE CORRUPT, IT'S OFFICIAL, NOT BEFORE TIME THE TIDE IS TURNING !
A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family backgrounds.
The document, which has been seen by the Guardian, has caused outrage among ethnic minorities within the force, who have labelled it racist and proof that there is a gulf in understanding between the police force and the wider Muslim community. The document was written as an attempt to investigate why complaints of misconduct and corruption against Asian officers are 10 times higher than against their white colleagues.
The main conclusions of the study, commissioned by the Directorate of Professional Standards and written by an Asian detective chief inspector, stated: "Asian officers and in particular Pakistani Muslim officers are under greater pressure from the family, the extended family ... and their community against that of their white colleagues to engage in activity that might lead to misconduct or criminality."
It recommended that Asian officers needed special anti-corruption training and is now being considered by a working party of senior staff.
The report argued that British Pakistanis live in a cash culture in which "assisting your extended family is considered a duty" and in an environment in which large amounts of money are loaned between relatives and friends.
The leaking of the report comes at a time when the Met needs the cooperation and trust of the Muslim community more than ever and as the force tries to contain the fallout from last week's anti-terrorist raid in Forest Gate in which a man was shot. The first version was considered so inflammatory when it was shown to representatives from the staff associations for black, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim officers, that it had to be toned down. There are 31,000 officers in the Met - 7%, or 2,170, are black and minority ethnic; among these an estimated 300 are Muslim.
One Muslim officer with the Met said: "It is like saying black officers are more likely to be muggers. Today it is Muslim officers who are treated as the Uncle Toms. How can they say to the Muslim community 'trust us', when they don't even trust their own Muslim officers."
Ahmanrahman Jafar, vice-chairman of the legal affairs committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, said it was shortsighted of the Met to be alienating its Muslim officers at such a sensitive time.
"We've got about 1,000 wrongful anti-terrorist arrests since 9/11 and I believe that if Muslim officers were involved in looking through that intelligence and understanding the context, we would have far greater efficiency in the police force and a far greater prosecution rate," he said. To support its conclusions, the report gives examples of cases in which Pakistani Muslim officers have been accused of corruption and misconduct. According to its critics, the report gives insufficient weight to the motivation of those who made the complaints or issues of institutional racism.
Superintendent Dal Babu, chairman of the Association of Muslim Officers, said the report had racist undertones. "We are gravely concerned about its contents and the message it sends to recruits and potential recruits," he said.
George Rhoden, chair of the Metropolitan Black Police Association added. "We have made it clear that we disagreed totally with the conclusions ... the whole thing needs to be researched in a much more comprehensive way."
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