The Telegraph reports:

Pc Zahid Malik, 39, from the Nottinghamshire force, said the use of the word black was 'questionable' and damaged race relations.The former community police officer of the year has written to the Home Office's new magazine for front-line officers, The Sharp End.

His letter said: 'In a piece on the Met's Crime Museum you use the term "Black Museum" for this "notorious police museum" and "the man in black" to accompany a picture of the curator. I question the negative use of the word "black" in these contexts. We all should be working towards improving recruitment, retention and progression of black and minority ethnic staff within the police service. I feel that this does not help the hard work of many colleagues within the service who seek to establish good relations and promote a positive image of a police service which values diversity.'

The editor replied: 'There was no intention to offend.'

The Met's collection at Scotland Yard, which is not open to the public, has been nicknamed the Black Museum since 1877 and features gory exhibits from famous cases. These include death masks, casts of necks disfigured by rope burns and a collection of nooses hanging from a gallows. The phrase Black Museum has traditionally referred to its funereal and evil nature. Other forces have followed the Met's lead in opening black museums.

Mind-bender: racism
Truth: metaphor

Interpretation: No, this is not a joke. This is how some of Britain’s politically corrected police officers now think. Unable to distinguish between racial prejudice and an English metaphor, they are attempting to police the language — and the reaction to such sheer intellectual idiocy is merely a meek attempt to placate it.