Chris Huhne

No Room For Complacency On Police Racism – Huhne

Commenting on Jack Straw’s statement that the Met Police is no longer institutionally racist, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said:

“The Met has made great strides since the appalling failure to investigate and bring to justice the killers of the young black man Stephen Lawrence in 1993.”

“But you would have to be blind and dumb not to recognise that there’s a lot of work to be done to stamp out racism and bigotry in the police.”

“The investigation of Anthony Walker’s death in Merseyside in 2005 shows that the police no longer walk by on the other side of the street when a young black man is murdered. But there’s no room for complacency about the canteen culture in many police forces and the large number of resignations by ethnic minority recruits.”

“We have reached a staging post, not a final destination.”