Bryan Knight reports on the 20th anniversary of the Macpherson Report that labelled the Met ‘Institutional Racism’ This past weekend marked the 20th anniversary of Sir William Macpherson’s report into police handling of the Stephen Lawrence Case. The report famously labelled London’s Metropolitan Police as ‘institutionally racist’ and set out numerous recommendations. One must reflect on […]
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Will Cressida Dick’s appointment encourage more women to join the police and the armed forces?
For the first time, a woman has been named chief of police in London. Cressida Dick, 56, succeeds Bernard Hogan-Howe in this coveted position. After a long career at Scotland Yard, she had left the police two years ago to take up a post at the Foreign Ministry. The new head of the Metropolitan Police Service, the […]