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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

Met police are ‘arrogant and resistant to change’, Doreen Lawrence says

Doreen Lawrence.
Doreen Lawrence says recruitment and retention of black police police officers remains ‘a crucial issue’ today. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

Scotland Yard has been accused of arrogance and resistance to change by Doreen Lawrence, 25 years after the publication of the damning Macpherson report.

In an article for the Guardian, the social justice campaigner said it is “sickening to feel that the same issues are still happening today”, in reference to the insufficient progress since the report in February 1999 about the force’s flawed investigation into the murder of her son, Stephen Lawrence.

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