Counter-terrorism officers at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 regularly put passengers with Arabic and African names on a security database to make it look as though they had been busy, a tribunal was told.
Former Det Con Kevin Maxwell said Metropolitan Police detectives would routinely sift through landing cards of foreign nationals and randomly type their details into a police database.
They did this without ever seeing the passengers, he claimed.
The former officer, who is black and homosexual, was giving evidence at an employment tribunal where he is suing the force for homophobic attitudes and racial discrimination.
He said colleagues working with him in the counter-terrorism unit at Heathrow's Terminal 5 would take the landing cards, filled in by visitors, from an unmanned Border Agency desk. Full story...
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Former Det Con Kevin Maxwell said Metropolitan Police detectives would routinely sift through landing cards of foreign nationals and randomly type their details into a police database.
They did this without ever seeing the passengers, he claimed.
The former officer, who is black and homosexual, was giving evidence at an employment tribunal where he is suing the force for homophobic attitudes and racial discrimination.
He said colleagues working with him in the counter-terrorism unit at Heathrow's Terminal 5 would take the landing cards, filled in by visitors, from an unmanned Border Agency desk. Full story...
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