Christian Police Association

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{{cquote|We believe consistent homoerotic sexual activity without repentance to be inconsistent with membership of the Association.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5200962.stm Gay and Christian police in row]</ref>}}
The '''Christian Police Association''' (CPA) is an [[Evangelical Christianity|Evangelical Christian]] nutjob association for the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Law enforcement|police]]. Despite the multicultural nature of the country, the CPA makes no attempt to hide their intent to proselytize and bring their [[religion]] in to the job.

The CPA requires that its members accept [[Biblical inerrancy]] and have a strong interest in proselytizing to colleagues and members of the public.<ref>[http://www.cpauk.net/faith.php CPA beliefs required for membership]</ref>

==Pray the crime away==
The CPA, despite appearances, is no mere club for [[Christianity|Christians]] within the police. They believe that [[prayer]] reduces local crime rates,<ref>[http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/news/PRAYER-CRACK-CRIME/article-1851685-detail/article.html How prayer can crack crime]</ref> and they also run an initiative called Coact,<ref>[http://www.coact.org.uk/ Coact] Everyone welcome, so long as they chose the correct religion and sect</ref> which aims to "Build bridges between the Police and the local Christian faith community." The possibility that this might also burn bridges between the police and non-Christians appears not to have occurred to them. As well as the problem of multiple religions and [[sect]]s, the [[reality]] is that only a minority of citizens regularly attend religious services. They may as well be trying to fight crime by enlisting the services of Green Bay Packers fans living in Birmingham, England.

==Home Office==
The Home Office, the [[government]]al department responsible for policing, seeing no problem in the CPA's highly divisive approach to policing, provides a £10,000 grant towards the cost of running Coact. As well as the problems of [[alien]]ating non-believers and followers of different religions, providing [[money]] to a demonstrably [[homophobic]] and divisive organisation seems as wise as supporting a litter collecting initiative run by [[white supremacists]].

==Accusations of homophobia==

The Christian Police Association has come into conflict with the [[Gay]] Police Association over the CPA's requirement that gay police officers who wish to join the CPA should remain [[celibate]]. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5200962.stm BBC News - Gay and Christian police in row]</ref>

==Adopt a cop==
The CPA runs a scheme through which members of the public can pray for a specific police officer. The officer provides a shopping list of things they'd like to happen and the volunteers contact [[God]] to make the necessary arrangements.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20120303005206/http://www.cpauk.net/adopt.php Adopt a cop] The unhelpful alternative to doing something (Archived)</ref>

== See also ==
 
* [[National LGBT+ Police Network]] - the police employee association for the LGBT+ community

==External links==
*[http://www.cpauk.net/ Official website]

==References==
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