In 2024 the then Acting Chief Constable, Elliot Foskett, issued an apology to the LGBTQ+ community for past discriminatory behaviour. But North Yorkshire Police has offered no apology to former police community support officer (PCSO) Luke Salmons, a committed Christian who was sacked that same year after a conversation about Gaza with a Muslim officer.

In February 2024, Foskett appeared in a video with Superintendent Ed Hayward-Noble, the force’s “strategic lead for LGBTQ+”. Oozing politically correct piety, Foskett intoned:

I am responding to a request for an apology relating to the way that North Yorkshire Police historically treated our LGBTQ+ communities. So as the Chief Constable it is for me to unreservedly apologise for the hurt and damage historically caused by North Yorkshire Police to our LGBTQ+ communities. We’re a very different force these days. We’ve changed a lot. Society has changed and we’ve changed with it. And I know that the actions of North Yorkshire Police way back then absolutely had a significant impact on our gay communities.

Read more: North Yorkshire Police Apologised to “Our LGBTQ+ Communities” – But Not to the Christian Officer It Wrongly Sacked