July 20, 2003

PC - or is that WPC?

Are you a hard-working officer with the Metropolitan Police - aka Scotland Yard? Do you need a little time off, but you just can't afford it? How does a year of paid leave sound? All you have to do is turn in your tackle. No, not your police equipment.

Officers with the Met who have a sex change will get twelve months of paid leave, with six months of that at full pay. This is not some sort of means of easing them out of the police. Quite the contrary, the Metropolitan Police Service Policy on Employment of Transsexuals insists that those who choose "gender reassignment" from what God made them to what they really are inside must not be discriminated against in any way.

This new policy gives the police a chance to take advantage of their carefully honed skills at supressing evidence. Records must be “weeded”. “Nothing should remain on the file which would disclose to a third party that a change has occurred.” They are also entitled to be tranferred to another post.

This isn't a policy just for existing officers. It is also for “encouraging and supporting members of the transsexual community to join the police”.

This isn't an idle policy that is just for a show of political correctness. The Met has already had 10 serving officers who have done a chop-and-change. They have also taken on at least one new recruit this year, though there was no indication whether this "transperson" (as the Met refers to them in this document) had finished the job of self-mutilation.

Posted by david at July 20, 2003 09:20 PM | TrackBack
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San Francisco has been paying for this for about a year (or two) now for city employess. I had no idea the Yard was so advanced!

Posted by: Huw Raphael at July 21, 2003 06:02 PM