Loophole in Police Oath Fosters ‘Woke Policing’: Former Officers

Loophole in Police Oath Fosters ‘Woke Policing’: Former Officers
Former police officer Harry Miller speaks to the media outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Dec. 20, 2021. Dominic Lipinski /PA
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A change in the wording of the police oath twenty years ago has led to “woke policing” with former officers warning that social justice is getting in the way of actual legal justice.

By adding to serve “fundamental human rights” to the oath of attestation, former policeman Harry Miller told The Epoch Times that he believes that this resulted in a knock-on effect where officers now make subjective decisions based on activist group-led human rights, which are not embodied in British law.

Upholds an Ideology

“We have a police force that has moved from one that upholds the law, to one that upholds an ideology,” said Miller, who is a part of organisations Fair Cop and the Bad Law Project.
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