by Sharelle B. McNair
February 3, 2026
George has spent extra time preventing poisonous behaviors on social media and being the topic of investigations on account of on-line feedback relating to British policing.
President of the UK’s Nationwide Black Police Affiliation (NBPA) Andy George is making allegations that there’s a large-scale try “to eliminate him” after dealing with quite a few investigations after talking out in opposition to the injustices skilled by Black legislation enforcement, The Guardian reported.
“I let you know now, there may be an try by a number of the longer-serving chief constables to eliminate me,” George stated, holding the title of longest-serving president to the group since being elected in 2020. “I can assure I do know precisely what they consider me: that I’m a wee upstart, so I’m, that doesn’t know my place.”
After spending years “maintaining his head down,” George seemingly stood out because the good choice to guide the Black Police Affiliation’s 6,000 members, elected simply weeks after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis by ex-officer Derek Chauvin.
George claims that issues modified for him after he spoke out that racism had a hand in his sister’s suicide. George admitted that his sister handled psychological well being challenges, saying that “the racism aspect was a giant a part of it,” including how she “ended up calling herself the N-word and the P-word – it simply ended up shattering herself as an individual.”
Whereas George hoped to be a pivotal pressure of change for racial inequities amid Floyd’s homicide, that didn’t occur. As an alternative, the chief has spent extra time preventing poisonous behaviors on social media and being the topic of investigations on account of on-line feedback relating to British policing. “I consider that I’m being victimised and discriminated in opposition to in an try and silence me,” he stated, after most not too long ago being ordered to maintain core duties.
The shift, he feels, is a technique to marginalize the group he represents.
George highlights cases that he says assist his viewpoints. When Sir Mark Rowley took over for former Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick in September 2022, Rowley banned officers from taking the knee. George cited, “the political setting had modified.” George requested a gathering with Rowley, nevertheless it was declined. The group chief says he has solely met with Rowley twice prior to now three years.
George has confronted 5 misconduct investigations by his native police division, the Police Service of Northern Eire (PSNI), accusing him of bashing police management on social media.
Based on The Unbiased, George commented on the “disproportionate variety of Black officers underneath investigation for misconduct and being held again in their very own careers” after a police officer in London was acquitted of homicide in 2024 after which promoted.
He additionally confronted a December 2025 investigation after reacting to the BBC’s Panorama investigation into racism accusations at Charing Cross police station. “What number of platitudes and excuses can we hear from the commissioner?” George wrote on X.
“@Metpolice commissioner has empowered poisonous tradition, and it’s laughable for him to recommend it’s racists and misogynists who need him out.”
After pinpointing Rowley as the explanation for a two-year evaluate right into a report that labeled the Met as institutionally racist and misogynistic, management reversed the highlight on George, saying his feedback might be purpose sufficient for the general public to lose religion within the police pressure.
Nonetheless, he feels talking out is nothing greater than maintaining mild on the reality. “It’s not the conduct, it’s the viewers,” George stated.
“They attempt to single me out as this individual that wishes to run my mouth on a regular basis, and simply likes to be controversial, which isn’t the reality.”
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