If you’re wondering how we got to the stage that British police are so concerned about spurious accusations of ‘racism’ that they’ll handcuff a stabbed white teenager and let him die, and Muslim child-rape gangs operate on an industrial scale for decades with impunity, we have to go back to 1983.
That was the year that Colin Roach, according to police, committed suicide by shotgun in the reception of Stoke Newington police station in London. Despite a coroner’s verdict confirming the death as suicide, the case became a cause célèbre of the left – an early curtain-raiser for George Floyd, so to speak. Irvine Welsh wrote a short story about it and Sinead O’Connor recorded a weepy dirge and dedicate an album to Roach’s family.
So began Britain’s ‘racial reckoning’, which eventually swung the pendulum to the point that UK police will literally let white boys bleed out because a brown man said he was ‘racist’ and where the entire British establishment ties itself in knots to run cover for Muslim child-rapists.
How it all operates in practice is borne out by the case of Luke Salmons, a police support officer in Yorkshire, not coincidentally the epicentre of the Muslim child-rape gangs’ reign of terror.
A Christian police support officer was accused of being racist after asking questions about Islam during a diversity training session – despite assurances he was in a ‘safe space’ to do so.
He also claims he was ‘shut down’ when he turned the conversation to Islamist groups, the situation in Gaza and tackling antisemitism, while separately he said his Christian faith led to one of his colleagues ‘making the assumption’ he was also ‘homophobic’.
Luke Salmons, 46, was suspended just two days after taking part in a training day in October 2024 on race, religion and culture before being found guilty of gross misconduct and barred from working in policing ever again.
The training featured instructors chanting ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ (a nonsense phrase popularised by the infamously nonsensical George W Bush). Salmons described it as indoctrination, somewhere between a Maoist Struggle Session and a Soviet re-education camp. When he tried to raise difficult topics, he says he was shut down. In another session he was told that questioning the “normalisation of underage sex” was out of bounds. He was told it was ‘inclusive’ and a ‘safe space’ for open discussion. It was neither.
For the little that it is worth, Salmons has finally won in court.
An ex-police community support officer (PCSO) has agreed a legal settlement against his former employer after he claimed he had been discriminated against because of his Christian beliefs […]
Supported by lawyers at the Christian Legal Centre, Mr Salmons appealed the professional conduct panel’s decision and the outcome was later overturned by Chief Constable Tim Forber.
North Yorkshire Police settled his subsequent discrimination claim on confidential terms. The force insists it is “an inclusive employer” that “respects the rights of all individuals to their beliefs.” The expression of those beliefs, it added, “must always be with due consideration of respect and courtesy”.
The UK police force has since faced condemnation for handcuffing dying white teenager Henry Nowak, while he bled out after being stabbed. The priority appears to be protecting certain narratives rather than protecting the public.
Mr Salmons, who said he was ‘absolutely gutted’ at having to leave his role as a PCSO after eight years with the force, believes his fellow officers are working within a ‘culture of fear’ where ‘only approved views are permitted’.
This is the direct result of decades of institutional capture. Police forces have been trained to treat any robust questioning of Islam as potential racism. The same mindset that paralysed investigations into the grooming gangs in Rotherham, Rochdale and across Yorkshire for years is still operating. Officers fear being labelled racist more than they fear failing to protect children or crime victims.
A survey of officers in another force found that one in seven felt “controlled and pressured” to adopt certain ideas during mandatory diversity training. Salmons’ experience shows what happens when someone refuses to play along.
Britain’s police are no longer primarily concerned with enforcing the law. They are enforcing an ideology.
Luke Salmons asked the wrong questions in the wrong place. For that he lost his career. The real scandal is how many other officers have learned to keep their mouths shut.
