Met Police: still institutionally racist?published at 10:36 Greenwich Mean Time 5 February 2019
Home Affairs Committee
Select Committee
Parliament
SNP's Stewart C. McDonald asks Doreen Lawrence how she feels the Metropolitan Police is doing addressing the Macpherson Report's recommendations, and moving on from the damning "institutionally racist" verdict.
She says that she's "always said that senior officers understand how to speak to people...but police on the beat don't get it" and that disproportionate and "intimidating" tactics are still used against black suspects.
She adds that career progression for black officers seems to be stalling.
"Look around at the top table how many people of colour do you see? Not many."
Mr McDonald asks if the force is still "institutionally racist".
Baroness Lawrence says that "in some respect they still are...nobody wants to be labelled that but undercover it still exists".