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An article in the Mail Online states that British police cannot be members of the British National Party.

Merseyside Police said: ‘We understand that the British National Party names a Steve Bettley for an alleged association with the party.
‘Whether Merseyside PC Steve Bettley was, or is, a member of BNP is subject to an ongoing inquiry.
‘Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe has reiterated our position that membership of the British National Party is totally incompatible with the duties and values of Merseyside Police.

‘We will not accept a police officer or police staff being a member of BNP.’
Officers are banned from joining or promoting the BNP because it would damage race relations, according to the Association of Chief Police Officers.

Since 2004, officers have faced dismissal for being a member of the BNP because of the risk it could damage race relations.

I googled “BNP membership eligibility for police”. The first article that came up was a notice from the South Wales police, as follows:
Membership of the BNP or similar organisation
“The police service has a policy of prohibiting any of their officers or staff from becoming members of the BNP or similar organisation whose aims objectives or pronouncements may contradict the duty to promote race equality. If you are, or have been a member of the BNP or similar your application may be rejected.”

An advertisement for the London Metropolitan Police states:

“Your Character

“All employees of the Met, whether they wear a uniform or not, are in a position of responsibility and trust. As such they should be law-abiding citizens with proven integrity. If you have previously been convicted of a criminal offence or had involvement with the police your suitability will be subject to careful consideration.

We also have a policy of prohibiting any of our officers, staff and volunteers from becoming members of the BNP or similar organisations whose aims or pronouncements may contradict the duty to promote race equality.”

An advertisement for the Thames Valley Police says the same.

The BNP’s policy page states its policy on immiga=ration as follows:

“On current demographic trends, we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years. To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question. We will abolish the ‘positive discrimination’ schemes that have made white Britons second-class citizens. We will also clamp down on the flood of ‘asylum seekers’, all of whom are either bogus or can find refuge much nearer their home countries.”

As they say, this is for your information.