Race and Policing: A review of the police service’s leadership and governance arrangements for race-related matters
In July 2021, the Home Affairs Committee published The Macpherson Report: Twenty-two years on. The committee considered the role we had played in assessing the police’s progress in addressing the recommendations made by the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.
The committee recommended that we should carry out a series of inspections of race and policing to start in 2022. This short review is the first inspection in that series. It considers the effectiveness of the national leadership and governance arrangements that relate to race and policing.
Alongside this review we have also published an inspection report on race disparity in police criminal justice decision-making.
In that inspection, we found systemic and long-standing problems in the collection of ethnicity data. Because these problems are attributable (in whole or part) to shortcomings in the police’s leadership and governance arrangements, we decided to publish both reports together and to include a summary of the relevant findings and recommendations from that inspection in this report.
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Police forces still failing to record and publish data on ethnicity