Humberside Police BANS woke cops from wearing glitter and face paint at Pride events after Home Secretary Suella Braverman says officers aren’t paid to ‘dance with drag queens’
- Humberside Police is the first to ban officers from donning make-up at events
- Move comes just days after the Home Secretary made a jibe against officers
- Suella Braverman has also ordered a review into ‘political activism in police’
Humberside Police has become the first force to publicly ban cops wearing glitter and face paint at Pride events.
The force announced the move just days after Home Secretary Suella Braverman jibed in the Commons that police were not paid to ‘dance with drag queens’ at LGBT+ events.
Humberside chiefs say officers will no longer be pictured donning the make up at such festivities.
Rachel Cook, chief executive of the Office of the Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner, said the force’s stance was ‘very neutral’.
Responding to a question from Councillor John Davison, of North Lincolnshire Council, about community policing, she said: ‘I think we’re in a very neutral territory.
Humberside Police has become the first force to publicly ban cops wearing glitter and face paint at Pride events just days after Home Secretary Suella Braverman jibed in the Commons that police were not paid to ‘dance with drag queens’ at LGBT + events
Humberside chiefs say officers will no longer be pictured donning make up at such festivities
North Hull MP Dame Diana Johnson said: ‘It’s not as if our police officers are prancing around covered in glitter every day’ and said the issue was ‘an operational matter for chief constables’ to consider. Pictured: Yorkshire Police take part in York Pride 2023
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‘You won’t see any photographs of our officers wearing glitter and face paint.’
Ms Braverman has ordered an impartiality review into ‘initiatives that are not meeting the priorities that the public expect of the police’.
Ms Cook said once that review had been completed ‘we’ll understand where the line will be drawn’.
Andy Train, a prominent member of Hull’s LGBT+ community, said officers needed to maintain professionalism, but added: ‘We do want them involved. We’ll take them as far as they want to go.’
North Hull MP Dame Diana Johnson said: ‘It’s not as if our police officers are prancing around covered in glitter every day’.
In the Commons this week Home Secretary Suella Braverman said police ‘are there to keep people safe. We do not pay them to wave flags at parades, with drag queens or to campaign’
She felt the issue was ‘an operational matter for chief constables’ to consider.
Deputy Chief Constable Dave Marshall said the force area ‘is made up of many communities’.
He added that officers are ‘really proud to be representative of the diverse communities we police.
‘Our work with diverse community groups enables us to create a police service that is accessible for everyone.’
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On Monday, Ms Braverman told the Commons that chief constables and elected police and crime commissioners (PCCs) should focus on ‘cutting crime and rebuilding confidence – not playing politics’.
Her response came following a question from right-wing Conservative MP Nick Fletcher, who said police could prevent more crime ‘if they started putting more bobbies on the beat and stopped promoting unscientific ideologies’.
In reply, Ms Braverman said: ‘My honourable friend is quite right. We pay the police to fight crime. Whether that’s a focus on anti-social behaviour, the nuisance bikers or burglaries, as he’s mentioned.’
She added: ‘They are there to keep people safe. We do not pay them to wave flags at parades, to dance with drag queens or to campaign.’
The Home Secretary said this was the reason ‘I finally ended all association with Stonewall at the Home Office’ and ‘why I expect all PCCs and chief constables to focus on cutting crime and rebuilding confidence, not playing politics’.
Earlier this month, Ms Braverman ordered a review into ‘political activism in police’.
Ms Braverman has told His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue services (HMICFRS) to probe what she describes as an ‘unacceptable rise in police partisanship’ – amid images of officers taking the knee and wearing badges in support of ‘social justice’ causes.
Speaking to the Telegraph, she claimed that public confidence in the police was being ‘eroded and needlessly damaged’ by ‘politicised’ officers, and that the review would examine whether activism was affecting their ability to police effectively.
The demand comes just months after a damning report into the UK’s biggest police force, the Metropolitan Police, which found the force was ‘institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic’.
Policing unions and opposition parties have hit out at Ms Braverman – known for her outspoken ‘anti-woke’ views – accusing her of using the police as a ‘political football’.
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