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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd and Mirren Gidda

Met to stop recording ethnicity of drivers stopped by its officers

Metropolitan police car on the street
The Met was the first force to record a drivers’ ethnicity as part of a pilot project. Photograph: georgeclerk/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The Metropolitan police are to stop recording the ethnicity of drivers who are stopped by officers, just as other police forces start doing it, the Guardian has learned.

Police in England and Wales had not previously recorded the race of those stopped on the roads amid claims that black drivers were picked on by officers.

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