The author of a report on integration in the UK told a police summit the desire to embrace diversity was letting down people in society and difficult conversations were required in some socially divided communities, such as Bradford.
Speaking at the APCC and NPCC Partnership Summit in London, she said: “If you’re not alive to the importance of talking about these issues then there’s not much hope of stopping these possible things happening to us.
Dame Louise’s report in 2015 warned of “worrying levels” of segregation and made recommendations including promoting English language skills and improving integration.
However, two years later, the former civil servant told senior police officers that nothing has changed.
Dame Louise said: “It has been tucked away in the all-too-difficult filing cabinet and it hasn’t seen the light of day.
“The extreme far-right is growing and they milk every single time we are overly politically correct about Islamic extremism, we have to be able to have these difficult conversations.”
She said the EDL used the Rotherham sex scandal to fuel Islamophobia.
Dame Louise told the police chiefs: “I would like to see the same team building when we know we have Islamic extremists and people who think that wearing short skirts on a Friday night is so wrong and westernises.
“It legitimises very harmful views about young women growing up in this country. And we don’t seem to be able to muster it.
“There are good reasons we don’t like people being victimised but we have to have those difficult conversations.”
According to research, ISIS fighters tend to be from deprived backgrounds where they have grown up with limited education and employment prospects. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Dame Louise’s report in 2015 warned of “worrying levels” of segregation and made recommendations including promoting English language skills and improving integration.
However, two years later, the former civil servant told senior police officers that nothing has changed.
Dame Louise said: “It has been tucked away in the all-too-difficult filing cabinet and it hasn’t seen the light of day.
“We need an integration strategy and that’s why the Government will continue to fail not just the public but the police.”
Dame Louise said immigration had not been managed well in the UK, which had sparked tensions.
She said: “Clearly this threat goes right the way across the country.
“The extreme far-right is growing and they milk every single time we are overly politically correct about Islamic extremism, we have to be able to have these difficult conversations.”
She said the EDL used the Rotherham sex scandal to fuel Islamophobia.
Dame Louise told the police chiefs: “I would like to see the same team building when we know we have Islamic extremists and people who think that wearing short skirts on a Friday night is so wrong and westernises.
“It legitimises very harmful views about young women growing up in this country. And we don’t seem to be able to muster it.
“There are good reasons we don’t like people being victimised but we have to have those difficult conversations.”
According to research, ISIS fighters tend to be from deprived backgrounds where they have grown up with limited education and employment prospects.
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Chief Constable Simon Cole, the NPCC lead for the Government’s Prevent programme, said police needed to help communities.
He said: “How do we deal with people who are returning from Syria? Do we need to put an arm around them or do we restrict them?”
Mark Rowley, the head of the UK’s counter-terror policing, said tackling terrorism requires investment in both local policing and counter terrorism
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