Wimps and women are little use to our police

As burglars, muggers and louts get bigger, rougher and nastier, the authorities have decided that what we need in the police are more tiny women and more unfit men.

The police entry test has just been watered down so that more women will pass.

Until now, the female failure rate has been ten times that for men. This is mainly because women's upper-body strength is about half that of men.

But why let biology get in the way of politics? By lowering the requirements for speed, agility and endurance, the Home Office hopes to increase the number of female recruits.

For whose benefit? Certainly not the public's. What most people in this country want is a police force made up of burly, self-confident men who patrol the streets on foot and deter crime by their presence.

I should have thought speed, agility and endurance would be a pretty important requirement for this job.

So what is the real reason for this plan to give criminals even more of an advantage than they already have? While it is still legal to say so, I will try to explain.

Because even for writing the facts above, I will be denounced as sexist by the squawking chorus of would-be censors who cannot bear to hear the truth about such things.

They have already silenced protests against sending women to sea in warships, which everyone in the Navy knows has done permanent damage to discipline and recruitment. Any naval officer who dared say so would face career ruin, so none does.

They are working on getting women into frontline combat roles in the Army.

And Britain's fire brigades are even now being feminised by a hideous alliance of State bureaucrats and ultra-Leftist union fanatics.

Yet there are no campaigns to get more women to work in other all-male areas, such as dustcart crews or building sites or deep-sea fishing.

The jobs selected for these campaigns are high-status and high-profile - because the main purpose of this sex revolution is propaganda.

Our rulers want to abolish the idea that men go out to work and women bring up children. So they have to try to prove women can do the most masculine jobs as well as men, even if this plainly isn't true.

But when it comes to the police there's a second motive.

Our elite don't believe in having a police force which overawes and catches the wicked. They don't think criminals are wicked. They think they are victims of poverty and bad housing, etc. They want a police service of uniformed social workers, offering counselling and peacemaking after the crime has been committed.

And they want to get rid of the old-fashioned coppers who thought they had joined up to deter villainy and catch villains. These, of course, are all men.

So they want to stuff the remaining police stations with politically correct females, fresh from three years of Leftwing indoctrination at what today pass for universities.

And, thanks to the lowered fitness standards, they will get a fair few weedy, Marxoid young men from the same places.

They'll be perfect for lecturing citizens who leave toy plastic swords in the backs of cars, and for arresting those who defend themselves against burglars.

But if it's a police force you want from now on, you'll have to whistle for it.