Senior UK Police Officer faces the sack after saying the phrase 'whiter than white'

SharpshooterTom

A senior Metropolitan Police officer who used the phrase "whiter than white" faces losing his job for alleged racism and gross misconduct.

The detective superintendent is said to have made the comment in a briefing to colleagues during which he discussed the need to be faultless and above reproach in carrying out inquiries.

But a complaint was made about his choice of words which was passed to the police watchdog for investigation, according to the Evening Standard.

The highly respected officer has been placed on restricted duties while the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigates and has reportedly been warned the inquiry may take up to 12 months to complete.

He is attached to Scotland Yard’s anti corruption squad, the Directorate of Professional Standards.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/14/senior-officer-faces-action-saying-whiter-white/

A bit harsh?

I believe the term 'whiter than white' it's a literal word play on the actual colour white being clear and clean, used to imply that something is spotless, clear and clean.

I guess other phrases with word play on colour like 'its not a black or white issue' or 'feeling blue' could be deemed insensitive in some way as well?

verycool

Hate to be the stupid c*nt who complained.

Wouldn't want a police force who are trigger(ed) happy! :pac:

mikemac2

Someone trying to blacken his good name

Rory28

Wasn't that a Daz slogan? Maybe Aeriel? one of the clothes detergents.

Turnipman

"An inquiry concerning another officer's use of the phrase "pale, stale and male" in another force is also said to be in progress."

O tempora o mores this is truly a great time to be alive. Gob****es to the left of us and snowflakes (also a racist term?) to the right.

Edgware

Why dismiss him? Just transfer him to Whitechapel or Blackheath.

per aspera ad astra

What a bunch of politically correct b*stards.

Edgware

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/14/senior-officer-faces-action-saying-whiter-white/

A bit harsh?

I believe the term 'whiter than white' it's a literal word play on the actual colour white being clear and clean, used to imply that something is spotless, clear and clean.

I guess other phrases with word play on colour like 'its not a black or white issue' or 'feeling blue' could be deemed insensitive in some way as well?

Where London leads Ireland follows. Plenty gob****es would have the Gardai go all P.C.

DEFTLEFTHAND

It's like living in the twilight zone at this stage.

British Police have gone completely off the wall over the past number of yrs.

As organised crime spirals out of control in big urban areas, plod is busting down doors at 6am to arrest people for making a joke on the internet.

Watch out for 'Operation Offensive Halloween Costume' next month.

jiltloop

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/14/senior-officer-faces-action-saying-whiter-white/

A bit harsh?

I believe the term 'whiter than white' it's a literal word play on the actual colour white being clear and clean, used to imply that something is spotless, clear and clean.

I guess other phrases with word play on colour like 'its not a black or white issue' or 'feeling blue' could be deemed insensitive in some way as well?

Yeah the last thing you want to do is upset those damn Smurfs!

conorhal

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's like living in the twilight zone at this stage.

British Police have gone completely off the wall over the past number of yrs.

As organised crime spirals out of control in big urban areas, plod is busting down doors at 6am to arrest people for making a joke on the internet.

Watch out for 'Operation Offensive Halloween Costume' next month.

You have stabbings out of control in London and people having acid thrown in their face and were is Sadiq Khan putting policing resources? Into policing offence on the internet
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-39692811


Once you start hiring whole departments of SJWs and they embed themselves in an institution like ticks ...then 'policing out of any wrongthinkers' starts to happen an you end up with this sort of mess.

FTA69

conorhal wrote: »

You have stabbings out of control in London and people having acid thrown in their face and were is Sadiq Khan putting policing resources? Into policing offence on the internet
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-39692811


Once you start hiring whole departments of SJWs and they embed themselves in an institution like ticks this 'policing out of wrongthinkers' starts to happen an you end up with this sort of mess.

Police resources have been slashed to the bone by the government, not by Sadiq Khan.

I think Khan is a slippery sh*t, but he’s not to blame for the police not having a shilling.

Aethan Dor

Rory28 wrote: »

Wasn't that a Daz slogan? Maybe Aeriel? one of the clothes detergents.

Correct I believe, think it was Daz, no racial connotations implied in that slogans intended use at all, truly a ridiculous world we live in these days.

FTA69

I think any right-thinking person who isn't a complete lunatic can agree that this thing is absolutely f*cking ridiculous and there's a certain brand of liberal rubbish that has gone too far.

Edgware

jiltloop wrote: »

Yeah the last thing you want to do is upset those damn Smurfs!

Well if the Smurfs are on the list it won't be long before they target the Oompah Loopas.
It's worse than Warsaw in 1940

JMNolan

FTA69 wrote: »

I think any right-thinking person who isn't a complete lunatic can agree that this thing is absolutely f*cking ridiculous and there's a certain brand of liberal rubbish that has gone too far.

I think it's brilliant. The more extreme these stories are the more obvious it is how daft this extreme left wing ideology is. Keep em coming I say.

Grayson

FTA69 wrote: »

I think any right-thinking person who isn't a complete lunatic can agree that this thing is absolutely f*cking ridiculous and there's a certain brand of liberal rubbish that has gone too far.

It's ridiculous but it's the procedures followed that are especially ridiculous. Someone made a complaint. It's not something I think is right to complain about, the phrase is fine. (maybe there's more, maybe it was "whiter than white....unlike those n***ers". However excepting that something like that happened, I think it's a harmless phrase)

What's horrible here is that it could take 12 months to be resolved. People are always going to complain about something, and everything should be investigated. The police should be fully transparent and above reproach. However it's not hard to investigate something like this. It should be someone made complaint. They establish what he said. Then they judge if it's offensive (it's not) and they move on. Process could be over very quickly.

Duckworth_Luas

verycool wrote: »

Hate to be the stupid c*nt who complained.

Was it PC Plod?

The Crowman

He's not as black as he's painted.

pickarooney

I simply don't believe this version of events, such as it is.

amcalester

The complaint is being investigated but he's not facing the sack (yet). The investigation could well find that there was no racism.

“A notice is issued to inform an officer at the earliest opportunity following an allegation and to safeguard their interests. It in no way indicates that misconduct proceedings will take place.”

A completely ridiculous complaint, but the IOPC are probably duty bound to investigate.

suicide_circus

this is a niggardly assessment of the man's character

Chris_Heilong

Another show of the stupidity of living in an ultra PC world.

FTA69

JMNolan wrote: »

I think it's brilliant. The more extreme these stories are the more obvious it is how daft this extreme left wing ideology is. Keep em coming I say.

As far as I’m concerned this isn’t particularly left-wing. It’s certainly not socialist or rooted in a class analysis. It’s liberalism at the end of the day, albeit swathes of the left have gone daft with this rubbish.

per aspera ad astra

suicide_circus wrote: »

this is a niggardly assessment of the man's character

Indeed it is. Politically correct niggards – that's what they are...

patmac

I think the police should be 'whiter than white' when investigating this matter and make sure everything is above board.

I'm all white Jack.

uck51js9zml2yt

patmac wrote: »

I think the police should be 'whiter than white' when investigating this matter and make sure everything is above board.

If it's above board , how will the vertically challenged people manage who can't see above the board?

Its disgraceful I tell you

Harry Palmr

I remember about 20 years go someone in Washington DC went to war having heard niggardly in conversation.


found it! Comically stupid and worrying.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/niggardly-attitude-to-word-costs-man-job-1.1258732

Aethan Dor

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I remember about 20 years go someone in Washington DC went to war having heard niggardly in conversation.


found it! Comically stupid and worrying.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/niggardly-attitude-to-word-costs-man-job-1.1258732

Oh my god that was wayyyyyyyy back in ‘99 as in 1999 ?

Really ? I mean not knowing a words meaning is no excuse just means you’re not well read, I despair

mikeymouse

The clown who reported it could just have Googled it first,
Persil used it 100 years ago,
Shakespeare even used a similar phrase;

Who sees his true-love in her naked bed,
Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white,
But, when his glutton eye so full hath fed,
His other agents aim at like delight?
Who is so faint, that dare not be so bold
To touch the fire, the weather being cold?

per aspera ad astra

Hey look – it's that niggard guy!

The Rape of Lucretia

It doesnt matter if Shakespeare used similar, or whatever was acceptable in the past, racist slurs such as 'wh***r than wh**e' are so grossly offensive to b***k people that the sanction cannot be argued. This is not 1600.
The wh**e-good, bl**k-bad equivalence is so deep in many people, and such an ingrained bias, that highlighted and forcibly rooting it our like this case is the only way to counter it.

endacl

Edgware wrote: »

Where London leads Ireland follows. Plenty gob****es would have the Gardai go all P.C.

All ‘police constable’?

mfceiling

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

racist slurs such as 'wh***r than wh**e' are so grossly offensive to b***k people that the sanction cannot be argued. This is not 1600.

Whiter than white is not a racist slur and I doubt very much if a black person would take offence to this innocuous saying.

Stop the world! I want to get off!

uptherebels

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

It doesnt matter if Shakespeare used similar, or whatever was acceptable in the past, racist slurs such as 'wh***r than wh**e' are so grossly offensive to b***k people that the sanction cannot be argued. This is not 1600.
The wh**e-good, bl**k-bad equivalence is so deep in many people, and such an ingrained bias, that highlighted and forcibly rooting it our like this case is the only way to counter it.

and the need to take offence at any perceived slight also seems to be ingrained in some people.:rolleyes:

Edgware

patmac wrote: »

I think the police should be 'whiter than white' when investigating this matter and make sure everything is above board.

Would that be a white board or a black board?

dotsman

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

It doesnt matter if Shakespeare used similar, or whatever was acceptable in the past, racist slurs such as 'wh***r than wh**e' are so grossly offensive to b***k people that the sanction cannot be argued. This is not 1600.
The wh**e-good, bl**k-bad equivalence is so deep in many people, and such an ingrained bias, that highlighted and forcibly rooting it our like this case is the only way to counter it.

Afraid I can only give you 2/10 for trolling on this one.

It was way too obvious.

Roger Hassenforder

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

It doesnt matter if Shakespeare used similar, or whatever was acceptable in the past, racist slurs such as 'wh***r than wh**e' are so grossly offensive to b***k people that the sanction cannot be argued. This is not 1600.
The wh**e-good, bl**k-bad equivalence is so deep in many people, and such an ingrained bias, that highlighted and forcibly rooting it our like this case is the only way to counter it.

dixiedan

I assumed the comment above was a pi$$take??

Harry Palmr

That's it's getting harder to tell is a reflection of how corrupted discourse has become.

Roger Hassenforder

dixiedan wrote: »

I assumed the comment above was a pi$$take??

My initial reading of it, was it is.
But I'm not sure!

TheValeyard

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

You’ve changed mate.

The Matrix got him

Cee-Jay-Cee

The wanker that made the complaint and who is probably also a police officer should be sacked for being a complete and utter fcukibg prick and charged with wasting police time.

The world has gone fcukibg mad. Arseholes making stupid complaints like that deserve nothing but contempt and derision.

TheValeyard

Maybe these guys were involved.

Captain Obvious

I think the real issue here is how it takes 12 months to investigate three words.

per aspera ad astra

Every day. Day by day, right on cue – it gets worse. Every day – it gets worse. Somebody is doing this on purpose – f***ing up the world, that is – but I don't know who, or why. B*stards!

JupiterKid

There has to be more to this story. This sounds completely crazy on the face of it.

wexie

JupiterKid wrote: »

There has to be more to this story. This sounds completely crazy on the face of it.

.....cause aside from this the world today makes perfect sense

REXER

It'll all come out in the wash, in fact at the end of the day it will most likely get white washed!