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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Margaret Davis

Forcing police officers to declare freemason membership ‘unnecessary and wrong’

Forcing police officers to declare whether they are part of the Freemasons would be “unnecessary and wrong”, a staff association has said.

Britain’s biggest police force, the Metropolitan Police, has launched a consultation on whether to add the group to its declarable associations policy, meaning officers would have to tell bosses if they are a member.

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