Fitness test favours 'blobby bobbies' over female police officers

A police fitness test in the UK should be scrapped because it favours overweight “blobby bobbies” over higher quality female officers, says a leading occupational health expert.

Fitness test favours 'blobby bobbies' over female police officers

A police fitness test in the UK should be scrapped because it favours overweight “blobby bobbies” over higher quality female officers, says a leading occupational health expert.

Professor Craig Jackson led a study which found the timed obstacle course, designed to set a level playing field for men and women, to be “unfit for purpose”.

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