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UNCOVERED: 2 - Caught on Camera

The Observer view on the serial failings of the Metropolitan police

The force’s leadership must act on the findings of Louise Casey’s review and rebuild its trust with the public

The Guardian - UK

Met chief Sir Mark Rowley again refuses to use ‘institutional’ to describe police’s problems

Sir Mark Rowley said the word had an “ambiguous” set of meetings, as well as being politically contentious

Evening Standard

'The long arm of the law is lawless. How many more of these wake-up calls do we need?'

Trouble is, we’ve been here before - with the Scarman Report in 1981 and the 1999 MacPherson inquiry which famously found the Met to be institutionally racist

Daily Mirror

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Former Met Police chief demands Commissioner RESIGNS after denying 'institutional racism'

A former Met Police Superintendent suing the force over ‘racist and sexist abuse’ is calling for the Commissioner to resign following his refusal to use the term institutional racism despite damning Casey report

Daily Mirror

Met Police force 'institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic' - the key findings of damning Casey report

The London force has failed to protect the public from officers who abuse women, a review following the death of Sarah Everard has found

Manchester Evening News

Unconscious bias training is ‘nonsense’, says outgoing race relations chair

Civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod says term risks avoiding real conversation about racism and systemic behaviour

The Guardian - UK

Met Police's first Black recruit on vile racism in the force - still there 50 years on

Norwell Roberts was a 17-year-old in 1965 when he first applied to the Met Police to become an officer, and faced years of vile abuse from colleagues as the force's first Black recruit

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What to do with a Met police that harbours rapists and murderers? Scrap it and start again

Violence against women is a threat more lethal than terrorism and our biggest force bears great responsibility, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Amid fiscal shock and awe, more austerity is the last thing we need

A collapse in credibility under the former Tory PM is being followed by a return to ‘sado-monetarism’ under the new one

The Guardian - UK

Huge failings kept hundreds of corrupt officers in the force, admits Met chief

Casey report uncovers internal failings that let racist, corrupt and misogynist officers remain in their jobs

The Guardian - UK

New Met commissioner declines to say whether force is institutionally racist

Sir Mark Rowley says he is not interested in ‘labels’, while vowing to root out racism in the force

The Guardian - UK

Former heads of civil service blast Liz Truss over sacking of Treasury mandarin

Sir Tom Scholar removed after six years shortly after PM’s arrival in office

The Independent UK

‘Guilty as charged’: top UK officer urges police chiefs to admit institutional racism

Met’s Neil Basu says ‘positive discrimination’ should be used to increase minority ethnic representation in ranks

The Guardian - UK

Father of Stephen Lawrence criticises police chiefs’ race plan

Dr Neville Lawrence says senior officers fail to listen and are doomed to repeat the same mistakes

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The Independent UK

Police leaders to commit to being ‘institutionally anti-racist’

The report is due to be published next week.

The Guardian - UK

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

New 50-page plan will avoid admitting institutional racism which critics say could doom promised reforms

Daily Record

Former SNP councillor hits back at claims he was dumped by party after 44 years

Former SNP councillor for the Bannockburn ward, Alasdair MacPherson, has hit back at claims that he was axed from the party after sensationally quitting last week.

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