Police officers have been banned from wearing a badge commemorating colleagues killed in the line of duty – in case it offends the LGBT+ community.
Families of fallen officers today reacted angrily to the ‘completely crazy’ order that Met officers should not wear the Thin Blue Line emblem – a black-and-white Union flag with a thin horizontal blue line – if working at today’s Pride celebrations in London.
The badge is intended as ‘a mark of remembrance and respect’ for those who paid the ultimate price to maintain law and order, but a similar symbol, based on the American Stars and Stripes, has been linked to transphobic far-Right groups in the US.
In an impassioned defence of the British badge, Debbie Adlam, the mother of murdered police constable Andrew Harper, said it was a symbol of her son’s ‘dedication to the force’.
She told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Since we lost Andrew we have considered the Thin Blue Line image to be a universal memorial to the loss of these officers.’
