“There is a culture of fear.”
As England hurtles toward a violent revolution, the increasingly totalitarian regime of Islamophilic Prime Minister Keir Starmer keeps doubling down on its two-tier system of (in)justice even within its own ranks of law enforcement, as one police officer learned the hard way recently.The UK Telegraph reports that Luke Salmons, a Christian police support officer with the North Yorkshire force, was fired after merely asking questions about Islam in a diversity training session he had been led to believe was a “safe space.”
During his eight-year policing career, Salmons, 46, had received a commendation from the chief constable and a rare “outstanding” grade in a professional review. In the spring of 2024 he was even asked by a superintendent to write an article about Easter for the force’s intranet site “because of my religion” – only to have an inspector intervene and tell him he could not make any reference to the Bible.
Then, in October 2024 Salmons attended a race, religion and culture training session at police headquarters. He later told the Telegraph that it became an “indoctrination” session in which trainers lectured about white privilege: “The whole day was pretty much about Islam. At one point the trainers walked up and down the room for several minutes saying ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ over and over again. It was bizarre.”
Encouraged to ask questions in what staff were told was a safe space, Salmons asked a Muslim officer his views on terrorist attacks by Islamic groups such as Hamas. The officer happily discussed the issue with him and even invited him to chat further over coffee. In anticipation of the meeting, Salmons took a book with him to work called Answering Jihad – A Better Way Forward by Nabeel Qureshi, a former Muslim who converted to Christianity. Two colleagues found it in his locker, photographed it, and reported him as a “risk” to superiors.
“I quickly discovered that questioning Islam is now treated as ‘wrongthink’ within North Yorkshire Police,” said Salmons. The next day, he was hauled into a meeting with a female inspector who told him, “I don’t like your beliefs,” and sent him home. After a months-long suspension in July 2025, he was formally dismissed for gross misconduct and placed on the College of Policing barred list.
“And that was the end of my career, even though I had done nothing wrong,” Salmons said. “There is no way that inspector would have taken a Muslim officer into a room and said ‘I don’t like your beliefs’.”
Absolutely right, just as there is no way a Muslim officer asked to write an article about Ramadan for the force’s internal intranet site would have been warned not to refer to the Quran. Just as there is no way a race, religion and culture training session at police headquarters would have made the whole day about Christianity – except to warn about it as a marker of far-right extremism. --->READ MORE HERE
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PCSO wins appeal following his suspension after raising questions during diversity training
A Christian police support officer was suspended after he had asked questions about Islam in a diversity training session.Luke Salmons lost his job as a police community support officer (PCSO) with the North Yorkshire force and was barred from policing after a conversation about Gaza with a Muslim officer.
He later won an appeal but has never received an apology from the force where he said a “culture of fear” existed among officers who were terrified of being fired for saying the wrong thing.
Mr Salmons, 46, told The Telegraph that a training day on race, religion and culture turned into an “indoctrination” session as trainers chanted “Islam is a religion of peace” and discussed white privilege.
Having been encouraged to ask questions in what staff were told was a safe space, he asked a Muslim officer about his views on terrorist attacks by Islamist groups including Hamas. The officer happily discussed the issue with him and invited him to chat further over coffee after the session.
But within two days he had been suspended for gross misconduct by an inspector who told him: “I don’t like your beliefs.”
Mr Salmons told The Telegraph: “I loved my job and I was good at it. I was well respected as a PCSO and my colleagues said they loved working with me and couldn’t understand what was happening.
“But an overzealous inspector took against me and that was the end of my career, even though I had done nothing wrong.”
On Thursday, The Telegraph reported how police officers in the force that failed Henry Nowak felt “controlled and pressured” during diversity training.
Mr Salmons, a father of two from Harrogate, spent 20 years working in construction before he decided to apply for a job as a PCSO because, he said: “I’m passionate about the community, partly because of my faith, and I wanted to give more to the community.”
During his eight-year policing career he received a commendation from the chief constable for the way he handled a “horrific” incident involving a person’s safety, and received a rare “outstanding” grade in a professional development review.
Then in the spring of 2024 he was asked by a superintendent to write an article about Easter for the internal intranet site “because of my religion”, only for an inspector to intervene and tell him he could not make any reference to the Bible.
His personal views were then questioned after an online training session about the growing problem of inappropriate sexual behaviour by minors towards other minors, during which participants were asked to give feedback.
Mr Salmons suggested that if children were raised in solid family homes and taught right from wrong the problem would decrease, which resulted in the trainer reporting him to his sergeant who told him he could not talk about his morals in the workplace. --->READ MORE HERE
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