Racial discrimination still a problem for police, say MPs

RACIAL discrimination remains a problem for police and in certain areas has got worse a decade after a damning report said Britain’s biggest force was guilty of “institutional racism,” a committee of MPs said yesterday.

In 1999, a judicial inquiry by William Macpherson into the murder of 18-year-old black student Stephen Lawrence outlined a catalogue of failures by London’s police force, accusing it of “professional incompetence” and identifying “institutional racism”.