A former leading police officer has hit out at the Metropolitan Police chief’s refusal to accept the force is “institutionally” racist, after commissioner Sir Mark Rowley rejected the term at a panel to oversee reform.
Former assistant commissioner Neil Basu said it was a “mistake” following the first meeting of the London Policing Board – a panel led by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in the wake of Baroness Louise Casey’s damning review of the Met.
