"I tell you now, there is an attempt by some of the longer serving chief constables to get rid of me, says Ch Insp Andy George. I can guarantee I know exactly what they think of me: that I'm a wee upstart, so I am, that doesn't know my place, he adds with a smile. The eldest son of a Protestant mother from Armagh in Northern Ireland and a father who was born in Malaysia but served in the British army,"
"His sister had struggled with her mental health but the racism side was a big part of it, he says. She ended up calling herself the N-word and the P-word it just ended up shattering herself as a person. He discovered her body in the home he helped her find. George, 46, hoped to play his role in changes to British policing as it duly paid its lip service to the new awareness sweeping through the west of societal and racial iniquities,"
Andy George is the longest-serving president of the National Black Police Association, elected in July 2020 to represent 6,000 members. He assumed the role three months after George Floyd's murder amid renewed attention to racial injustice. George served nearly a decade in an armed response unit in Northern Ireland and was twice highly commended. His commitment to the NBPA intensified after his sister Vikki, who suffered mental-health problems compounded by racist abuse, died by suicide. George has faced toxic social media abuse, multiple formal investigations over his comments, and believes some senior officers seek to remove him.
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