Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed that the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is investigating the Henry Nowak incident, is part of the “terrible culture that has led to prejudice within this country”.
Sir Jacob said on GB News: “The problem with two tier policing, with unfairness in our policing, seems to be one that is deep-seated and deep-rooted in the way organisations have been behaving.
“If you look at the Hampshire police, they were training people, they were training their police force, and they felt controlled and pressured, according to police who did the courses that were teaching them things about unconscious bias, were trying to brainwash them into believing essentially that there was prejudice behind every corner and pointing people in the direction of having a prejudice against white people in our country.
“That’s what’s so dangerous and has led to this terrible occasion of the death of Henry Nowak and the treatment of him as he lay dying, that they believed a charge of racism, because that’s what they were being brainwashed into believing that was how you got on in the police force, that is how you got a tick in the box.
“And the survey on how Hampshire police felt has revealed that, it was in the front page of the Telegraph, but then you look at the IOPC, which is investigating, and the IOPC is apparently not investigating the policemen who were actually involved, who were there at the time, they’re investigating the incident, but not the individual officers.
“When the policing minister was on the radio yesterday, she was unable to say whether or not these police officers are still on frontline duties. Just think, if the racial profile had been different, it’s inconceivable that they would still be on frontline duties under those circumstances, and they would unquestionably be investigated by the IOPC, but of course the IOPC itself is infected by the woke DEI set of views that, if you look at its document issued in 2022, equality, diversity, and inclusion policy for IOPC staff and contractors.
“It even has the silver award from Stonewall, and we know that Stonewall is the organisation that has the most extreme views on the trans issue and thinks people will wake up one morning and change their sex.
“They’ve got an award from them, and they go through this, and they say that they want positive opportunities that could benefit members of underrepresented groups. That means reverse discrimination, positive discrimination, if you prefer, but positive discrimination is still discrimination.
“You’ve not only had this terrible problem in Hampshire, this sort of wicked problem in Hampshire that has upset, quite rightly, so many people in this country, but then the people who investigate them are in the same boat, they’re part of this same terrible culture that has led to prejudice within this country.
“It seems to me it’s quite wrong. It needs to be changed. We need to get to a situation where once again we are all equal under the law.”
