Police guidelines on dealing with incidents involving race ‘need to be revisited’ to end accusations of ‘two-tier’ policing, one of Britain’s most senior officers has urged.
Current National Police Chiefs’ Council guidance highlights a need for ‘not treating everyone the same or being colour-blind’.
But Sir Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, said there is a need for police to ‘double down on our impartiality’ following an outcry over the Henry Nowak case.
The 18-year-old bled to death last December after police in Southampton handcuffed him, believing a claim by his Sikh murderer that Mr Nowak had racially abused him – and
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