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Times Online - UK
26 February 2008
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Greater Manchester Police, UK
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Racist force rejected Sikh off
A Sikh policeman is set to receive a five-figure damages award for racial discrimination after a police force rejected a dozen applications from him to join.
PC Sangram Singh-Bhacker, who comes from an Indian family in Manchester, had been trying to join the city’s police since 1990. He had served with five other forces in England but Greater Manchester Police (GMP) repeatedly refused to allow him to transfer to work in his home city.
In February last year Andrew Marston, its head of personnel, told him in a letter: “I am not prepared to consider you as a potential transferee with the GMP now or in the future.”
Mr Singh-Bhacker, 40, told The Times: “I had had my suspicions over the years and that letter confirmed it. I thought it was personal and racial. I decided to go to an employment tribunal because that was the only way I was going to get any answers.”
The tribunal ruled that Mr Singh-Bhacker had suffered racial discrimination. It will rule on compensation next month. It noted that he was a qualified, physically fit officer who had been accepted by the Wiltshire, Merseyside, West Yorkshire and Cheshire forces, as well as British Transport Police, his current employer. Yet Manchester police had blocked his applications despite a white officer of similar age and experience being allowed to transfer into the force.
In its written judgment the tribunal expressed surprise and shock at some of the evidence presented by the police force and said that it had been puzzled and perplexed at the reasons advanced for not employing Mr Singh-Bhacker. The force had given a variety of reasons — including poor health — and cast doubt on his integrity at the hearing. The tribunal said it was “surprised that \ has seen fit to come and impugn the claimant’s honesty and integrity without producing documentation to support this”.
Mr Marston, who raised the issue of integrity, was heavily criticised. The tribunal said that it “did not find him to be a convincing witness”.
Some of Mr Singh-Bhacker’s applications had been refused with either no reason given or partial explanations. The ruling said: “The respondent had changed the reasons for refusing the claimant on so many occasions that he was indeed in a ‘Catch-22’ situation.”
Mr Singh-Bhacker, married with two sons, said that the judgment marked an end to his battle and that he would no longer try to join the Manchester force. “I love my city. I wanted to work in the city as a policeman, to be close to my family and especially my mother, who was ill for a long time until she died last year.” He added that he had experienced racism during most of his police career. He said: “Racism still exists in police organisations. Diversity courses won’t erase it but they do educate people. In some cases, however, they can teach racists how not to get caught.”
The GMP said that it was “disappointed and unhappy” with the tribunal’s finding. A spokesman said: “We actively encourage applications from minority ethnic communities.”
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