Hmm. I wonder. Do they carry guns or do they apprehend suspects using the Force? Do they use the Jedi mind trick to make suspects confess - "you will tell me where you've hidden the stolen TV." Do they were those hot Jedi boots? Do they really have mitoclorians in their blood? So many questions, so few answers.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....
A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police confirmed: "At the time of the request, 10 (eight police officers and two police staff) had recorded their religion as Jedi."
She added that the force monitored "six strands of diversity" - age, disability, gender, race religion and belief, and sexual orientation.
The force said the information was provided voluntarily and securely stored.
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.
Maybe I shouldn't make light. Maybe if some of our police officers were Jedi we would have less incidents of "death by cop". Just sayin'.
