Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has condemned the estimated £631 million spent by Britain’s police forces on diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives over the past six years.
The figure comes from a new Policy Exchange report, published this week, examining spending since May 2020. It estimates that £431 million was incurred through staff time devoted to DEI training, £177 million was spent on dedicated inclusion posts and £23 million went towards external consultancy.
“It turns out that the police wasted £631 million on DEI schemes over the past six years”, Farage said. “Care to know how many police officers that could’ve employed?”
According to the report, the money could have funded approximately 2,000 additional frontline officers in each of those years - or around 8.3 million hours of policing.
“That’s approximately 8.3 million hours of policing focused on knife crime, violent assaults, robbery and other crimes”, Farage said.
Farage pointed out that the findings were particularly alarming at a time when public confidence in policing had deteriorated.
“Britain’s police forces are utterly broken”, he said. “Violent crime is spiralling out of control and ‘petty’ crimes like shoplifting are effectively legal.”
Farage also linked the findings to the treatment of Henry Nowak, the 18-year-old student who was handcuffed by officers as he lay dying after being stabbed in Southampton. His killer, a Sikh man, had falsely accused him of racism.
“In light of Henry Nowak’s death, the true scale of this racket is enraging”, Farage said. “He died because of an anti-White culture within our police forces, and these schemes are designed to uphold it.”
He added: “This is more than a waste of money. It supports a system of two-tier justice in which White people are blatantly discriminated against.”
Farage pledged that Reform UK would scrap DEI positions and programmes throughout Britain’s police forces, redirecting the savings towards additional frontline personnel.
“Only Reform will stop this madness”, he said. “The savings from this will go directly towards employing frontline officers who spend their time cracking down on crime rather than Facebook posts.”
The figure comes from a new Policy Exchange report, published this week, examining spending since May 2020. It estimates that £431 million was incurred through staff time devoted to DEI training, £177 million was spent on dedicated inclusion posts and £23 million went towards external consultancy.
“It turns out that the police wasted £631 million on DEI schemes over the past six years”, Farage said. “Care to know how many police officers that could’ve employed?”
According to the report, the money could have funded approximately 2,000 additional frontline officers in each of those years - or around 8.3 million hours of policing.
“That’s approximately 8.3 million hours of policing focused on knife crime, violent assaults, robbery and other crimes”, Farage said.
Farage pointed out that the findings were particularly alarming at a time when public confidence in policing had deteriorated.
“Britain’s police forces are utterly broken”, he said. “Violent crime is spiralling out of control and ‘petty’ crimes like shoplifting are effectively legal.”
Farage also linked the findings to the treatment of Henry Nowak, the 18-year-old student who was handcuffed by officers as he lay dying after being stabbed in Southampton. His killer, a Sikh man, had falsely accused him of racism.
“In light of Henry Nowak’s death, the true scale of this racket is enraging”, Farage said. “He died because of an anti-White culture within our police forces, and these schemes are designed to uphold it.”
He added: “This is more than a waste of money. It supports a system of two-tier justice in which White people are blatantly discriminated against.”
Farage pledged that Reform UK would scrap DEI positions and programmes throughout Britain’s police forces, redirecting the savings towards additional frontline personnel.
“Only Reform will stop this madness”, he said. “The savings from this will go directly towards employing frontline officers who spend their time cracking down on crime rather than Facebook posts.”
