February 4, 2012  Print Email | British coppers play racist games
Backward Brits run racially segregated cop shop
Posted by Nick Farrell at 08:19 AM GMT on Mar 03, 2009 | THE UK metropolitan coppers used to play racist games with officers from ethnic minorities including ones with titles like 'spot the black PC in the dark'.
An employment tribunal was told that racist coppers were given a "licence to bully" by Met bosses and a form of racial segregation was operating at the Belgravia Police Station in London.
 According to the Daily Telegraph, the allegations have been made by Asad Saeed, a Muslim PC who is suing the Met for racial discrimination.
He worked for a month at the Belgravia station in central London in February 2007, before being suspended after two white racist colleagues "framed" him claiming he had assaulted a vagrant.
Initially Saeed was sacked from the force but reinstated on appeal when CCTV evidence proved the pair had framed him.
Saeed's complaints mirror other claims from ethnic minority officer's who said that a white inspector at the Belgravia station had drawn up a hitlist of black officers to be got rid of and handed it out to white officers.
PC Peter Campbell said this behaviour gave racist bullies like PC Geoff Whitehead and PC Royston Upson, who framed Saeed, a licence to bully the ethnic minority coppers. Campbell said that when they were on the beat after dark we would often notice a police car following us. Eventually one of the police constables told me that they were playing a game called 'spot the PC in the dark'.
At the Belgravia station, white officers rode in a separate van to ethnic minority coppers, barring entry to any black officer who tried to get in, and refused requests to pick them up.
Canteen and television rooms were racially segregated. And white officers boast about their links to the right wing anti-immigration BMP.
Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson last week declared the force's racist past was behind it. But as details of this case leak out he is probably going to regret saying that.
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