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

Police racial bias played role in UK Covid fines regime, says report

A police officer with a megaphone instructs people in Greenwich Park, London, to keep moving during the first coronavirus lockdown in May 2020.
A police officer with a megaphone instructs people in Greenwich Park, London, to keep moving during the first coronavirus lockdown in May 2020. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Bias in policing at least partly explains why minority ethnic people were more likely to receive fines for Covid breaches than their white counterparts, research says.

The study, seen by the Guardian, was based on in-depth interviews with officers who policed the streets. The officers spoke confidentially to academics from Liverpool University and served in forces in northern England, including Cheshire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.

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