Abusing an "Arab"

[Steven]

I am not anti-Police, but the Home Secretary's words yesterday in front of the Police Federation about the service given by the Police as being patchy rings true. <_<

[quote name="The Daily Star &quot] Pc suspended in racial abuse probe

A police officer alleged to have told an arrested teenager he would "smash his Arab face in" has been suspended pending a standards investigation, Scotland Yard has said.

The 26-year-old constable is accused of abusing a Kurdish teenager who claimed to have captured a tirade of abuse on his mobile phone's voice recorder.

Details of the exchange, which took place in a police van following the boy's arrest in February, emerged during a court hearing in London.

West London Youth Court heard the two-and-a-half minute recording in which the officer is alleged to have threatened violence, sworn 18 times and accused the teenager of being a robber and a rapist.

District Judge David Simpson discontinued an allegation of threatening behaviour against the youth, who cannot be named, and called on police to hold an inquiry.

He told the court last Friday: "There's a lot of talk about respect and the lack of it. Respect is not something you get by putting on a uniform. I believe respect should be earned."

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: "A 26-year-old Territorial Support Group officer based at Paddington was suspended from duty on May 17 pending a Directorate of Professional Standards investigation.

"This follows an allegation of racial harassment."

[Nationwider]

There's good eggs and bad eggs in every institution and walk of life. In the last few months, we've had cases of two policemen convicted of murder and drug trafficking respectively, in my part of the world.