Our thanks to Steve for this from GB News. Lowering standards so as recruit and retain more women is having a bad impact on policing as it has in every other line of work which has been feminised. But rest assured, the physically taxing and dangerous work will still be allocated to male police officers wherever possible, although they won’t earn a penny more than their female collagues who are are escaping such work.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
My two oldest friends joined the Police (GMP) just over 40 years ago, in time to be policing the “riots” and Miners and other strikes of the early and mid 80s. At the time there were height requirements and one had to be be pretty fit. Colour blind I’d have no chance. Rather like sport, now so topical, there were different standards for women and they were generally given less physical tasks. As with the current debates on “trans” and women’s sport there was a recognition of the sex differences and these were deployed to best effect. For instance WPCs dealt with the harrowing child abuse cases etc. But weren’t facing striking miners from behind the huge riot shields of the time.
In a sort of salami slicing to be Politically Correct and latterly “woke” in search for “diversity” Police forces across the country have become Police services. Businesses and individuals have come to rely on a booming “security” industry.
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I’m going to make the point that police officers require a high level of fitness for their own safety and well being.
when you reduce the height requirement, you reduce the ability for police officers to look after themselves in an altercation, likewise being fit to good standard would help them.
what does the police think the staff are going to do? learn martial arts??
I had to learn MAPI for the care system( because of physical aggression) , but even we know that if you are not fit enough( or big enough in size-not fat), you will not survive unscathed because the people we look after are quite capable of damage, and it’s not like you could respond physically( for defence) as you would on the streets( because you would be prosecuted).
There is also the issue that the job of a police officer can be quite stressful( mentally as well as physically) so you need to be fit throughout the majority of your police career, otherwise you become ill and the quality of your life will be reduced.
bear in mind if you are injured, and you were not fit, then the police force would be liable for your injuries.
Following the reduced fitness standard means that many police officers would have to be retrenched( note retrench not pensioned off) sooner in their career without extra pay-off or pensions etc( the public would not accept the cost) because they started off at a lower level of fitness( we all know your fitness goes down as you get older).
we are going to start seeing memes about the police force( and yes there are already some out there) along the lines of here comes the doughnut squad….
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Thanks Rob, good points, I’d only challenge one thing – “the public would not accept the cost”. The public would have no choice but to accept it, as they have had to accept the cost of so much of this social engineering which invariably leads to poorer services at higher cost.
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