he chair of a policing watchdog has been sacked after publicly questioning whether a senior officer should be wearing an LGBT rainbow lanyard.

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The chair of a policing watchdog has been sacked after publicly questioning whether a senior officer should be wearing an LGBT rainbow lanyard.
Bob Fousert was forced to step down as chairman of Cheshire police and crime panel by seven votes to five with one abstention.

The panel’s role is to hold elected Labour police and crime commissioner (PCC) David Keane to account.

Apparently at a panel meeting he questioned Keane about the deputy chief constable wearing a rainbow lanyard whilst in uniform at a meeting.

Mr Fousert said: “Do you consider such an overt, political statement to be appropriate for a senior officer to wear given the police should be seen to be impartial in all it does and what message do you think this sends to officers and staff in terms of integrity, leadership and objectivity as espoused by the constabulary’s code of ethics.

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Lanyards should be issued by the employing organisation which should ensure the design has no religious, political or lobby group significance. Employees should be contracted to wear only the issued lanyard. Gifts of jazzy lanyards or other merchandise from external organisations should be refused without exception.

Problem solved!

That seems a bit ott,although maybe appropriate in a uniformed org.

My workplace are offering sunflower lanyards for hidden disabilities to signal mask exemption, so there can be good reason to wear something different.

Coming back through Gatwick a couple of years ago, the officer checking passports was wearing one of these. Really off I thought given this person presumably had the right to take me to a small room...

Agree that the police and other officials should not wear this kind of thing. And the rainbow lanyard has been corrupted particularly in my eyes.

Indeed Dances if the Scottish Government got the religious group could accuse the police of having material.likely to stir up hate.