Former Metropolitan Police detective Peter Bleksley has furiously scolded the state of policing in Britain in a GB News rant.
Bleksley, 65, was speaking about a probe into a tweet made by Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson which saw police officers pay a visit to her home on Remembrance Sunday.
The ex-officer said on GB News the perceived heavy-handedness is a byproduct of the police being captured by the ‘wokerati’.
“British policing has got itself into a dreadful, appalling mess”, he told Dawn Neesom.
Peter Bleksley hit out at the police’s handling of the Allison Pearson investigation
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“Not just over non-crime hate incidents, but so many other aspects of policing that have simply fallen away are not done properly.
“What it means is free speech is being attacked in many ways and victims of crime are being failed.
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The investigation into Allison Pearson was discussed on GB News
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“When you turn up and somebody’s door and tell them they’re being investigated – tell them exactly what they’re being investigated for.”
Bleksley said the state of policing can be blamed on “academic types” being handed top jobs, meaning non-crime hate incidents are given more credence.
“Sadly, out there in the world of social media, there are many examples of police behaving unprofessionally, appallingly and often, pathetically”, he said.
“They are undertrained. They’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel in terms of recruiting, so often with a lack of vetting they don’t get suitable people.
“Consequently, years, almost a couple of decades of senior policing roles being full of the wokerati, academic types who wanted to get away from the front line of policing as fast as they could, this is what you get. You reap what you sow.”
Pearson’s alleged incitement to racial hated, following a complaint from a member of the public, is being investigated by Essex Police.
The force has defended its actions after she was left “dumbstruck” by their appearance on her doorstep.
In a statement, Essex Police said officers “went to a residential address to arrange a time to do an interview with a woman about a complaint made by a member of the public”.
“At no stage during the short interaction between the woman and our officers was she informed that the report being investigated was being treated as a non-crime hate incident. To suggest otherwise is wholly inaccurate and misleading.
“As the public would expect, we have body worn video of this interaction which entirely supports our position in this respect.”