Chief constables are facing demands to scrap their ‘two-tier’ commitment to treating white people differently to ethnic minorities.
Under a so-called Anti-Racism Commitment published last year, policing leaders say that ‘racial equity’ should not mean ‘treating everyone the same or being colour blind’.
Instead they say their goal is to produce ‘equality of policing outcomes’ by ending the racial disparity in the ‘likelihood of people being criminalised’.
The commitment is part of a multi-million pound Police Race Action Plan set up in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in America ‘to improve trust and confidence in policing among Black communities’ in
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