Taypayers being 'taken for fools' as report details DEI policing costs have smashed £631m in SIX years

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Taypayers being 'taken for fools' as report details DEI policing costs have smashed £631m in SIX years.

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Taxpayers have been left furious as they have been "taken for fools" after it was revealed that Diversity, Equality and Inclusion activities have cost police £631million since 2020.A new report from Policy Exchange has highlighted the extent to which taxpayers' money has been spent on DEI rather than keeping UK streets safe.

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The £631m figure is comprised of £431m spent on training police forces across the UK on equality, diversity and inclusion.£177m on internal posts with a diversity, equality and inclusion component, and £23m on external training and consultancy.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Anna Stricklands, researcher at the Taxpayers' Alliance, told GB News: "Police chiefs have taken taxpayers for fools by pouring hundreds of millions into EDI bureaucracy while victims wait for crimes to be solved."Every hour spent on ideological training and equality box-ticking is time not spent tackling burglary, shoplifting, knife crime and violence against women and girls."The Home...

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