Holding women up to any kind of standards is discrimination:
A police force has come under fire after scrapping compulsory fitness tests on the grounds they are unfair on women.
British Transport Police said female officers were suffering 'indirect discrimination' from doing a so-called bleep test – in which they have to run up and down a 15-metre track for three minutes 35 seconds – because they were far more likely to fail than men.
Now only new recruits and specialists, including dog handlers and armed officers, are required to pass a fitness test.
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