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Sussex police (per Friday's "Express" are under fire ... for sending two homosexual police officers on a 6 week "fact finding" jaunt to San Francisco.

Whilst there - the officers will take part in a Gay Parad and visit gay nightclubs.. Thisis supposed to give them an insight into San Francisco's policing of the gay community.

Brighton's residents and local politicos have condemned this as a waste of £5,000 -as police already understand the needs of gays in Brighton and its surrounds.

The officers however (one sergeant and a civilian worker) will spend time on patrol in gay Castro district and join in the Gay March in Sussex uniform and the civvy will wear a Sussex Force T-shirt!

Apparently this is a bursary award and they will be on full pay during the 6 weeks (but two weeks are classed as part of holiday leave). They claim they will return with fresh ideas and rest of the UK will benefit from their experience....

If they come back with some ideas as to how to encourage protected sex in the gay community - but as far as am aware 'Frisco has too many HIV victims

Local politician condemns this as "a jolly good jolly - Brighton and San Francisco are worlds apart and losing two officers like this in peak holiday season is ridiculous. There is nothing new to learn - police already deal with all communities in an even-handed way..."

Locals are fuming - "If they want to uinderstand the gays here - I suggest they get out and patrol the streets" says local Andrew P.

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Yeah ... still a jolly though. San Fransisco are probably policing their gays same as anywhere else.

Nothing really any different to learn really - and they research and treat HIV the same way as we do too.....

I am sure there are more worthwhile learning experiences.... such as Canadian road safety policies....without scams....

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Yeah...seen this on the tele what a bloody disgrace-as if it's not bad enough with politicians using any old excuse to go on a jaunt. Funny how their jaunts are always 2 week meetings in Barbados?

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It's like the "global warming" crowd.. Thousands of them jet off to "conferences" in such dreary places as Hawaii, Buenos Aires, Florence... It must be Hell for them!

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EH, exactly why do gay people need policing differently than to straight people?
What could they possibly learn of any value?

Do people of different sexualities commit crimes in different ways?

As if the police werent burdened enough with actual law enforcement they now have to be social guardians.

I fail to see how getting homosexuality socially accepted is by treating them differently.

Could be.. A (gay) friend of mine who lives in San Fancisco told me of a nasty incident there a few days ago. Apparently a woman was attacked in the street by three men... Two of them held her down while the third did her hair.

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Reminds me of a Yes Minister episode: 'The Challenge'. Hacker wants to persuade a local council that building nuclear fallout shelters would be a better use of the money that they currently waste. It turned out that all the council had to do was:



Life imitating art almost. What a brilliant series.

Hmmm As ever, this is negative reporting by the mainstream press that is conveniently neglecting to mention the whole story.



Rather less than " a Gay Jolly".

Still sounds like a jolly to me. Why not come up here to Manchester? We have a thriving gay community on Canal Street. Or so I'm told anyway.... What can they learn in San Fransisco that they can't learn a bit closer to home? I'm sure each force in the country does it differently so will have plenty of things to teach them.

My (badly made ) point was that the actual trip was funded by a bursary that these officers had worked hard for in their own force and community and that this was used to finance the trip, rather than a 'random' grant that was used by a politician for a badly disguised holiday. yes, 2 weeks are being counted as holiday, but this is coming off their annual leave, rather than being in addition to it.
yes, manchester does have a thriving gay scene, but i suspect that the UK's more enlightened forces with a substantial gay scene already liaise to a certain degree, and that a US force will offer a genuinley different perspective.

The "Mail" reported that they had been "mesmerised" by porn on a wide screen and were having a jolly holiday.

Still do not see what can be learned here - would imagine that gay communities are the same the world over - as are red light communitiies, chav communities, all communities...and crime and policing would be exactly the same there as over here -except over there - "small" matter of guns!

They'd be better off having a learning experience within UK or Europe - if they must go for a jolly.

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Surely they will learn something - like how to reload a .38 one handed while eating a doughnut?

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