POLICE FORCE IS WEIGHED DOWN BY TOO MANY OBESE OFFICERS
A HIGH-RANKING police officer has revealed that the majority of her force has been piling on the pounds.
Lucy Hutson, chief superintendent of Hampshire Constabulary, said: “Our health screening programme indicates that almost 70 per cent of the force is overweight or obese.
“This carries a higher risk of developing heart conditions such as coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.”
Annual fitness tests became compulsory for action to help people and keep them safe, including the roll out of these helpful apps.
“Access to trusted information and support is key to helping people manage their diabetes and we are delighted to support these tools which will hopefully empower people to look after their own condition and reduce their risk.”
Other measures already adopted by the NHS to allow diabetes care to continue during the pandemic all officers in England and Wales in 2014.
Repeated failure leads to disciplinary action.
But a spokeswoman for Hampshire Constabulary said recent figures had shown those overweight had fallen from 67 per cent to 63 per cent.
She added: “In terms of body fat percentage rather than BMI [body mass index], only 18 per cent came out as obese, showing that there is a lot of functional lean body mass [muscle] in the constabulary.”
include online appointments, routine discussions with GPs and a dedicated helpline for those treated with insulin.
Meanwhile, analysis from Public Health England yesterday revealed that 3.2 per cent of adults are morbidly obese.
The data came from the most recent Health Survey for England, which also showed that more than a quarter of adults are obese and at risk of serious health problems.
Mark Jones is pictured with a rifle
exchanged racist and antiSemitic messages and sported his-and-hers swastika knitwear.
Jones was pictured making a Nazi salute in a concentration camp execution chamber and doing target practice with a crossbow and assault rifle.
Two associates, Garry Jack, 24, and Connor Scothern, 19, were also sent to prison for NA membership.
Jack, of Birmingham, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years and Scothern, of Nottingham, who was once a practising Muslim and anti-fascist activist, got 18 months.
All four had been found guilty of membership of a banned organisation in March.
Passing sentence, Judge Paul Farrar described the group as “the most extreme Neo-Nazi organisation to appear in the UK for many decades”.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, QC, said of the NA: “They hark back to the Holocaust and they take their mindset from those extreme Nazi groups and latterly neo-Nazi groups in Germany.”