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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent

Racial justice groups criticise Met’s refusal to accept force is racist

Police officers patrol on Oxford Street in London
The Met police were found to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic and in need of radical reform in a landmark review earlier this year. Photograph: Marcin Rogozinski/Alamy

A coalition of 26 racial justice organisations has criticised the Metropolitan police for refusing to accept the core finding of the Casey review that the force is institutionally racist.

In an open letter sent to Sir Mark Rowley, the commissioner of the Met police, anti-racist groups describe the overhauls set out in the New Met for London plan launched last week as a “missed opportunity” for the force to signal radical change, and acknowledge wrongdoing and deep failures.

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