Posted on 02/08/2008 11:33:31 PM PST by Stoat
Star visit ... Ben poses with Ross Kemp during filming of Sky One show
A SOLDIER who saw nine comrades killed in Afghanistan told yesterday how he was stopped from becoming a cop — because he is the wrong colour.
Brave Lance Cpl Ben Mayer, a regimental police officer with the Royal Anglians, was shown capturing Taliban terrorists on a telly documentary screened last week.
Rejected ... Ben with his letter
But when he quit the Army last month to fulfil his ambition of becoming a cop, the Metropolitan Police refused to even send him a recruitment pack — and told him in a letter they were only “actively seeking to raise interest from black and minority ethnic communities and females”.
But he could apply to be a volunteer special constable or a Community Support Officer.
Stunned Ben, 23, said: “After all I went through for my country to defend it, I just wanted to help the community at home — especially at a time when terrorism is such a threat.
“While I was in Helmand, I risked my life constantly to take on terrorists.
“To get back and learn that I am the wrong colour or sex to even be considered for the police has left me speechless.
"I feel discriminated against.”
Letter of the law ... Ben's told Met want women and ethnic recruits
Ben, of Billericay, Essex, was shown operating on Helmand frontline with 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment, in Sky One's Ross Kemp In Afghanistan. He was seen interrogating terrorists in Army jails.
The soldier, who also served in Iraq, left the Army after seven years.
He added: “I’ve always wanted to be a cop and my experiences dealing with prisoners in Afghanistan just strengthened that because I enjoyed it so much. I find it very disheartening. ”
Non-white officers make up 24 per cent of the London force — an increase of seven per cent last year.
Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair boasted in October that success in recruiting minorities meant positive discrimination was no longer needed.
The Met confirmed Ben had been refused a recruitment pack — but said that the force was not recruiting right now.
A spokeswoman added: “This is the case for everyone regardless of gender or ethnic origin.”
In 2006, Gloucestershire Police were forced to pay £2,500 compensation after “deselecting” white male candidates who had applied to become coppers.
Hi:
What does this mean?????
“Official coverage of America by Shariah = Texas”
I’d like to officially invite Ben to come to the US and immediately join any number of departments who would be thrilled, and lucky, to have him as an officer. But he should enter the US illegally in order to get immediate acceptance, official assistance, and be on the fast track to US citizenship. Otherwise, he’ll be in line far too long and be abused unnecessarily.
Indeed...it can be hard enough for a person to become qualified in demanding careers such as law enforcement or other emergency services, and for the people who have swam through lakes of fire to get to that point to then be subjected to this insane, underhanded political garbage is an unspeakable insult not only to them but to the integrity of the given Agency. Hopefully Lance Cpl. Mayer will not give up in his honorable quest to serve the public.
Britain is way “ahead” of the USA on this one. Marxism has advanced much more there.
It seems to be set on taking the country that was built by Whites and giving it to non-Whites. (Rule #1 of communism: the haves have and the have-nots don’t have. That must be fixed).
I wasn't in the service but that was U.S.Steel's thing at the time. "Consent decree" was what they called it. I once saw a truck driver with a women helper delivering 55 gallon drums of chemicals. The driver got out and unloaded the drums while his fat female helper stood around. My family called in a favor to get me in. When I walked in the first day , I was heckled by the other guys about being male. Had to have a thick skin to work in a mill.
“Unfortunately, I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that this business of entirely manufacturing news out of nothing is something that The Sun does”
Lol, really? Maybe you should go to Liverpool, where the Sun is still widely boycotted over their treatment of victims of the Hillsborough Disaster.
Manufacturing scandal from nothing is the raison d’etre of The Sun. If they had anything to back up this story, they’d print it. They have the letter. If it said what they claim it says, why do they not print the actual section of it that deals with the reasons why applications are not being accepted?
If the Met Police are lying, that would be very easy to prove. Go to the recruitment section of their website, no vacancies listed for probationary officers.
“I’m afraid that taking the word of a Government bureaucrat over that of a heroic soldier is not something that I will readily do”
I’d quite happily take his word. Just show me the whole letter that he’s holding in his hand in the photo. Why would there be any reason to hide the substantive part of it?
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