UK police forces still need to do more to recruit black and ethnic minority officers to reflect the communities they serve, local media reported on Friday, citing Chief Constable Gareth Wilson.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th October, 2018) UK police forces still need to do more to recruit black and ethnic minority officers to reflect the communities they serve, local media reported on Friday, citing Chief Constable Gareth Wilson.
Wilson, the lead on diversity for the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), told The Guardian newspaper that police had been making slow progress on eliminating racial prejudice from the workforce.
Earlier in the day, the NPCC unveiled a new toolkit, part of a wider strategy that aims to make police forces more diverse and inclusive. One of the recommended measures is to assess all senior police leaders on their efforts to improve diversity within their command.
"It is feasible that someone through poor performance will lose their job, of course it is," Wilson was quoted as saying by The Guardian.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May criticized police forces in England and Wales for poor recruitment of ethnic minorities back in 2015 when she was home secretary.
Institutional racism was defined in a report by Sir William Macpherson, published after the racially motivated killing of a black UK teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993, as "the collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin."
