Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged.This is after 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales, and 14,000 in Scotland. I hope, for the sake of the what I assume are the good people of Strathclyde, that these men are not like most people willing to openly identify themselves as Jedi: dressing in brown bath robes, waving around broomsticks while making lightsaber noises, debating Obi-Wan v. Gandalf with the 6 police officers who identified as Hobbits, and awkwardly confronting Peter Mayhew with scripts for new movies.
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.
Preliminary reports say there is no truth to the rumor that Hayden Christiansen was one of the officers, having taken up a new career after that whole acting thing didn't work out as well as he hoped. If you wish to join up with a religion that's only slightly more ridiculous and implausible than all the other ones, visit the Church of Jediism, the Jedi Church, or just set up all your Star Wars figures and start preaching to them from a bible of your own creation.
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