COPS were banned from wearing a badge commemorating colleagues killed in the line of duty — for fear of offending the LGBTQ+ community.

       The Met told officers to ditch the Thin Blue Line emblem while working at the weekend’s Pride celebrations in London.

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       The Met told officers to ditch the Thin Blue Line emblem while working at the Pride celebrations Credit: Getty

       The badge shows a thin blue line running through a black-and-white Union Jack.

       A similar symbol based on the US flag has been linked to anti-trans groups in America.

       However, cops did wear Pride rainbow epaulettes.

       Tory MP Tim Loughton said of the badge ban: “The forces of woke are trying to discredit a symbol associated with raising money to help families of those who have fallen in the line of duty.

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       “If only those woke warriors in charge of law and order put as much effort into catching criminals as they do in trying to show everyone how PC they are, then crime might be under control.”

       Ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel accused politically-correct groups of imposing “false narratives” on hard-working police.

       She said said: “This is the result of vested interest groups imposing political correction and false narratives on our hard-working police officers."

       Henry Miller, who founded the Fair Cop group, said: “Nobody in this country says the Thin Blue Line is political. It’s completely crazy.

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       “We have seen officers wearing all kinds of insignia associated with political causes, none of which they should do.”

       Debbie Adlam, the mum of murdered PC Andrew Harper, said since the tragedy she considered the badge a “universal memorial” to the loss of the officers.