Met accused of insulting black people with shake-up of anti-racism strategy

Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police commissioner. The new broader anti-discrimination scheme is intended to help the Met better serve groups it has failed in the past. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The Metropolitan police have been accused of insulting black people and mocking the pain it has caused them after revealing it wants to absorb its anti-racism strategy into a broader anti-discrimination scheme.

The Met said the scheme, also including gender and sexual orientation, would increase its chance of success in better serving groups it had failed in the past.