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Blocked - Top GMP cop blames ‘racist’ glass ceiling
Steve Hammond23/11/2006
A TOP Asian cop is claiming racists attitudes are trapping him under a career 'glass ceiling.
Inspector Asrar Ul-Haq, currently the head of the police in
Manchester City Centre, is taking his employers to a tribunal
alleging racial discrimination.
Inspector Ul-Haq is the highest ranking Asian officer in the force.
He shares this status with Inspector Bal Singh who is also suing
GMP for alleged racial discrimination over his year long suspension
from the force on disciplinary charges.
Supporters of Inspector Ul-Haq say he has been passed over several
times for promotion to the rank of chief inspector while several
less qualified and less experienced white officer have reached this
grade.
Four years ago Inspector Ul-Haq applied for promotion to the rank
and was judged capable of fulfiling the role by senior officers on
his division.
He then joined several other hopefuls on an assessment course at
the GMP training college at Sedgley Park.
He passed rigorous tests and college trainers judge him to be ready
for promotion.
To move up in rank candidates must then go before an appointment
board of senior officers. Inspector Ul-Haq has been before the
board three times but has been denied promotion on each
occasion.
He was unavailable for comment on his case but friends say he and
his family are "disillusioned" with GMP.
It was only last week that GMP Chief Constable Mike Todd declared
the label 'institutional racists' no longer applied to GMP.
But members of the GMP Black and Asian Police Association disagree.
Inspector Ul-Haq, who lives with his wife and children in Rochdale,
got honours degree in applied physics and mathematics and was
head-hunted by the RAF and the army.
But he declined an offer of an army commission to pursue his ambition to rise to high rank in the police force.
He has served both in the uniformed branch and CID as an inspector
and was presented with an award for innovation by the Home
Secretary.
A spokeswoman for GMP said they were aware of the tribunal action
but did not want to comment as it was in the "very early
stages".
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