Member

The noble Baroness, Lady Cash, spoke about using common sense, and I am all for common sense, but, unfortunately, we have to balance that with what we know about racism in our police forces. We know from the very good London Race Action Plan, published by the Metropolitan Police last summer, that the Met still has some way to go before becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. The action plan covers 30 patterns of harm identified, with a diagnosis of these issues and a structural companion guide on how to change practice—and, importantly, culture—to reduce and remove those harms. I fear that the Met is not the only police force to still have some racist behaviour by officers, whether the officers are aware of it or not. That is why I query proposed new subsection (2).