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Recommendation 46
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Professional Standards Departments lack BME representation and face institutional racism perceptions.
Recommendation
Police forces must act swiftly to address perceptions that Professional Standards Departments are marked by institutionally racist practices. In addition, forces must address unacceptable racial disproportionality in their composition: it is totally unacceptable that 63% of all Professional Standards Departments include no BME police officers at all. We welcome the work done by some forces, reported in the NPCC’s most recent review, to draw on BME advisors as well as seeking to address the lack of BME representation in PSDs, but all forces need to address this and demonstrate progress by the end of 2021. The NPCC should conduct a specific review into this issue and report within a year. (Paragraph 270) Stop and search
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 26 May 2022. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗