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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Police chiefs failed to tackle racism due to lack of leadership, watchdog finds

Three policemen with their backs to the camera
The Independent Scrutiny and Oversight Board blamed a lack of national leadership for failures to tackle racism in policing. Photograph: Jed Leicester/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock

Promises by police chiefs to tackle racial bias failed owing to “a lack of clear national leadership”, an independent police report has found.

The promises were made five years ago in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and led police bosses in England and Wales to launch a race action plan promising to tackle the “stigmatising and humiliating” experiences of Black people at the hands of officers.

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