By Giuseppe De Santis
The pro-immigration lobby constantly repeats that “diversity is our strength,” yet reality tells a very different story. Across Britain, public bodies and major organisations have been pressured to prioritise demographic targets over competence or integrity, often with disastrous results.
The latest and most shocking example emerged recently, revealing that the Metropolitan Police hired a convicted child rapist under its “diversity drive,” even though he had previously failed background checks.
PC Cliff Mitchell was accepted into the Met in 2020 despite having been investigated three years earlier, in 2017, for the rape of a child. His application had initially been rejected, but a vetting panel, partly tasked with improving diversity within the force, overturned that decision.
In September 2023, while serving as a police officer, Mitchell brutally raped a woman and kidnapped her at knifepoint. The victim had already endured years of abuse, and Mitchell used his police authority to further intimidate her.
Following his arrest, investigators reopened the earlier child abuse case and charged him with three additional counts of rape against a child under 13. In May 2024, he was convicted of 13 counts of rape, including six involving a child, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 13 years.
Mitchell had been one of more than 100 individuals recruited despite failing vetting checks. These applicants were referred to a special panel established to reconsider rejections of ethnic minority candidates as part of the Met’s diversity recruitment scheme.
The scandal raises grave concerns about the integrity of police recruitment across the UK. According to reports, at least six police forces, in a rush to meet targets for 20,000 new officers and claim the associated government funding, secretly dropped employment checks on new recruits. As a result, thousands of officers and staff were hired without even the most basic reference checks.
A damning internal audit revealed that the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) were aware that several forces had ignored vetting rules. The Metropolitan Police itself admitted in an NPCC survey to “deviating” from national regulations during the £3 billion Police Uplift Programme (July 2019 – March 2023). However, sources suggest the actual number of non-compliant forces is even higher, as some failed to respond to the NPCC inquiry.
This is utterly unacceptable. The British Democrats are committed to ending the madness of political correctness that sacrifices public safety for ideological box-ticking.
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