{"id":292615,"date":"2016-08-24T13:12:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=292615"},"modified":"2021-01-16T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:17:24","slug":"sikh-police-seek-bulletproof-turbans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/sikh-police-seek-bulletproof-turbans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh police seek bulletproof turbans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Another great example of tolerance and respect for religious freedom in England where Sikh policemen can wear their religious turban at work. The French government should learn\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>British Police Sikh Association calls on Home Office to develop ballistic material to allow members to join firearms units<\/p>\n<p>Sikh police officers want special bulletproof turbans to be developed so they can serve in firearms units, according to the new British\u00a0Police\u00a0Sikh Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Sikh religion requires its male followers to wear the turban, but existing police safety helmets do not fit on top of them.<\/p>\n<p>Insp Gian Singh Chahal, vice-chairman of the\u00a0British Police Sikh Association, said the Home Office needed to make provision for Sikhs and recognise that they had a role to play.<\/p>\n<p>He told Police Review: &#8220;Sikh officers have been prohibited from becoming firearms officers because our religion does not allow us to remove the turban.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been some research done into producing a ballistic material [for turbans]. We would like to follow any opportunity where we could manufacture a ballistic product, made out of a synthetic fibre, that would ensure a certain degree of protection, so Sikh police officers could take part in these roles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there needs to be a recognition from the Home Office that would allow Sikh officers to carry out these roles. I think the will is there from chief constables but perhaps not yet from the Home Office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The association was launched last month to represent an estimated 2,000 Sikhs who serve in the police.<\/p>\n<p>Sikhs do not have to wear crash helmets under the Motorcycle Crash Helmets (Religious Exemption) Act 1976.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2009\/may\/07\/police-sikhs-bulletproof-turbans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2009\/may\/07\/police-sikhs-bulletproof-turbans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Another great example of tolerance and respect for religious freedom in England where Sikh policemen can wear their religious turban at work. The French government should learn\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":292617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}