UK Police Officers. Advice Needed

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Hello all. Thank you for viewing this thread and a bigger thank you in advance for any advice you may be able to give me.

I am a 25yo Kiwi (New Zealander) I am a British Citizen, but have been living in NZ since I was 8 years old. Landed a month ago. Currently staying with family.

I am determined to join the Police Force. I have searched many websites and each have proven excellent (I know more now than I did before) But I'm looking for advice from real Police officers. What I should do. Who I should see. Anything, no matter how minor it may seem, etc. This is what I want to do. I'm very keen on being in Birmingham. It's a lovely city. Far better than what it used to be.

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Basically the police are not hiring unless you are of a minority race or a woman, positive discimination, in a lot of local forces. I have a few friends trying to get a job with the police but have come across the forementioned block.
 
Great.... hmmmm wonder if theyll believe me if I say I am part Maori haha. I have a tonne of training to do before I even try. Was hoping to get the ball rolling however. No bother. I shall keep trying anyway. As I say. Im determined... and Ill get another job in the mean time...
 
My friend applied for the Police Force while we were in Uni together.

She made it as far as the interview process and the point I presume they make sure you're not prejudiced. She didn't get it because her brain wasn't working properly, so I'll share this bit of advice for when you get to that point.

When they ask about the difference between making derogatory comments to a person of another race and petrol-bombing someone's house in a racially-motivated attack, do not create a 'scale of racism' in your head and attempt to explain it.
 
So without it being a 'scale of racism', what is the difference between the two? Is it a 'scale of aggression'?
 
DG_Silva
So without it being a 'scale of racism', what is the difference between the two? Is it a 'scale of aggression'?
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I think it's because it's not the Police's job to decide that, any crime is a crime worth dealing with. Of course in reality this does not happen and they just ignore things they think are minor crimes.
 
They never bothered investigating when my car was stolen, and the next one vandalised.
 
DG_Silva
They never bothered investigating when my car was stolen, and the next one vandalised.
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There simple isn't enough Police, so they won't bother with something like that unless you know who did it, even with CCTV evidence they would probably still try to ignore it because they are unlikely to catch anyone.

They like crimes they can solve to boost the crime figures and ignore others and don't record them if they can. So much so no one bothers to report a lot of stuff anymore because the Police won't/can't do anything about it.

However they will not ignore a racist attack (on an ethnic minority at least) because the press will find out and it makes them look bad. That's the way of the government and almost anything else too these days.:indiff:
 
Wow. I know this is the wrong fram of mind to have so I am going to ask now rather than later. What happened to joining to do the right thing? With the state of technology these days cctv and facial recognition should allow for expert police operations. What Ive been hearing is more from a journalistic stand point.

"What do we have today?" "Home invasion, traffic collision, vandalism, verbal racial attack." "Ok.. we will take the racial attack. The media would love to report that as opposed to anything else"

I respect that this topic is a very unstable and touchy one. I do apologize if anything in this post or others of mine does offend anyone, but coming from New Zealand I have seen many racial slurs. It isnt nice at all
 
TBH, I know that my crimes are not really that serious, nor are they going to be investigated with much vigour (to be fair, they did recover my stolen car, ANPR cameras picked it up). Now, I know this is going to sound racist, but it's not, just fact. Both incidents happened in an area of Birmingham where the local population is about 90% Indian sub-continent origin. I know the people who did it were Pakistani born or origin.

When I asked the police officer who came to take a statement why so much crime was happening in the area (I work in a betting shop, so we were getting a lot of anti-social behaviour, drug dealing, violent behaviour, etc.), his reply was that the way they had be told to police those areas, ie softly-softly, was the wrong way, and unfortunately it had been the wrong way for 15 years, so there was not much they could do about it any more. This was based purely on the perceived potential reaction of the locals, and the press, because of the colour of their skin.

But Drift, I agree with you; policing should be about doing what is right, and solving crimes whoever the victim. I have been on the receiving end of homophobic abuse from this sub-section of people, but I know there is no point in reporting the crime because the police will be torn between investigating a hate crime, and keeping the peace. If you can overlook the misalliance of the superiors in the force, I'm sure you'd make a great copper.
 
Well, to join in late, I feel that the police simply respond to crime, instead of preventing it happening in the first place.

But there are good coppers out there, I'm sure.
 

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