Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:45 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Jan Berry: We have two ways of dealing with this. I have been a police officer for too many years now and I can remember when homophobia was not outlawed in the way that it is today, and where sexual orientation was outlawed, and where police officers spent far too much time enforcing laws around sexual orientation. Today that does not happen, so there has been a sea change in how police deal with this particular area, and rightly so. A lot of my members are gay and the type of treatment that they are given, sometimes within the service and hopefully we are resolving that, but more importantly outside, where it is known that they are gay, is outrageous. They have to deal with enough difficulties without that being added on top. I think that those are some of the examples that we would give.