Black Met officers urged by colleagues to donate to fund for sacked PCs

Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, said he had received multiple complaints from black officers in the Met. Photograph: Paul McErlane/The Guardian

Black Metropolitan police officers have complained of being put under pressure by white colleagues to donate to a fund that has raised £130,000 for two officers sacked for lying over the stop and search of a black British athlete and her Olympian partner.

Andy George, the president of the National Black Police Association, said he had received multiple accounts from black officers who felt pressed to give money to Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks, who were sacked for gross misconduct last week.