LONDON: After three senior Asian officers recently filed racism charges against the London Metropolitan Police, a Muslim woman officer has taken her department (Met) to the employment tribunal saying she was bullied because of her colour and sex.
The complainant, Yasmin Rehman, 42, is the Met’s director of partnerships and diversity. She is responsible for upholding racial and religious diversity within the Met.
A copy of Rehman’s employment tribunal claim, lodged with the tribunal and the Met and passed to The Sunday Times, reads, ‘[A senior detective] stated she did not want the claimant to touch her coffee cup or ever make her coffee. This was soon after the July 2005 bombings and [the detective’s] reasons for saying this were apparently connected to the bombings.’
Rehman, who joined the Met in March 2004, is a civilian and the most senior Muslim woman within the force, with a rank equivalent to chief superintendent. The documents say her treatment at the hands of her white colleagues became so unbearable she is off work with stress and has considered suicide
