Police chiefs to apologise for ‘racism, discrimination and bias’ in race plan

The document and planned reforms comes after decades of promises by policing to stamp out racism in the ranks, and failure to deliver. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Police chiefs will declare they are “ashamed” about racism remaining in law enforcement, and apologise for the “discrimination and bias” still plaguing forces in a new race plan launching next week.

The plan from National Police Chiefs Council and College of Policing will avoid admitting institutional racism, which critics brand a failure which could doom the promised reforms.