Half of black British police suffer racial incidents from colleagues, survey finds

Metropolitan police officers undergoing public order training. Eight out of 10 incidents happened in the office and the next most common setting was on patrol. Photograph: Paul Doyle/Alamy

More than half of Britain’s black police officers and staff suffered racial incidents from colleagues in the past year, a survey has found.

Those affected were much more likely to feel like outsiders and to want to leave, and many believed their bosses failed to punish wrongdoers, in effect creating a culture of impunity.