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Behind the Blue Line - My Fight Against Racism and Discrimination in the Met (Hardcover)
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Behind the Blue Line - My Fight Against Racism and Discrimination in the Met (Hardcover)
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Detective Sergeant Gurpal Singh Virdi's exemplary career in the
Metropolitan Police Service ended when he spoke out against racism
within it: an issue it has long paid lip service to tackling. What
came after is simply shocking. On Wednesday 15 April 1998 Virdi was
arrested, had his home searched and was suspended on charges of
sending racist hate mail to himself and other ethnic minority
colleagues. Dismissed in disgrace, an employment tribunal found
that he had been racially discriminated against. The Met was forced
to give him an apology and compensation. He returned to service but
soon discovered, having been passed over for promotion, that when
you challenge an organisation like the Met, you are a marked man
for life. Freshly retired and due to stand in local elections as a
Labour councillor, Virdi was arrested again and accused of the most
horrendous of crimes: sexually assaulting an underage prisoner
nearly three decades before. When it came to court, it took just
fifty minutes to acquit the former police man of all charges, with
the trial judge noting the likelihood of a conspiracy behind the
case. But the damage had been done. For seventeen years the Met had
pursued a vendetta against one blameless individual who dared to
speak out against injustices, and it had driven him and his family
to the edge of the abyss. This is the deeply shocking story of how
one of the biggest institutions in the country brought the entire
apparatus of state to bear in a campaign to destroy the life of one
of its own officers in an apparent act of revenge.
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