Eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged. Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the faith, which features in the Star Wars movies.
The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane’s Police Review. Strathclyde was the only force in the UK to admit it had Jedi officers. In the Star Wars films, Jedi Knights such as Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda use the Force to battle the evil Darth Vader, who has strayed to the dark side.
About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.
The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with atheists. Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi – which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.
Is the “it’s now a major religion” thing just an urban myth?
Lol… that’s the best type of police!
So are we to assume they’re part of two different forces now?
(I’m sorry, it was so bad… I just had to
(Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about the universe!?)
I had no idea Derren was moonlighting with the police force.
Don’t his former criminal tendancies at the dogtrack and his aiding and abbetting the armed robbery of a security van count against him in terms of a background check?
Could be useful though for things such as riot control and cross examination. And I thought Matt Parkman was the only cop who could read minds!
Imagine how paranoid you’d be if Derren came to your door with a loudhaler and said “come on out, you’re surrounded”!
very weird stuff
This is not the blog you are looking for….
You have made a mistake….
Move on…..
I Iisted myself as Jedi on the census and am much abashed that the office of national statistics don’t care to take it seriously… i really did want to become a religion officially… I really do believe in the force! (well, several actually… gravity to name but one… ::) ) *sigh* Will just have to try again in a couple of years… I mean, if Cao Dai is a real religion… (see wikipedia – they take Victor Hugo as a saint, have the most kitsch temple you have ever seen, and approximately 10% of Vietnam name it as their religion – their temple is a fascinating place though)
I wounder how many people put down Pasterfarianism
Flapjack you watch waaay to much television!