Funny and interesting news from Overseas:
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.
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.
Wow, I guess in some places, you can have the freedom of choice when it comes to religion.
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I can't remember who it was but I'm sure this started up as a campaign to highlight how stupid it is to list religion in forms and such, and the fact you couldn't leave it blank.
So someone thought up that if you had to put something, why not just put Jedi, so they can see how ridiculous it is.
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