Met accused of insulting black people with shake-up of anti-racism strategy

Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police commissioner. The new broader anti-discrimination scheme is intended to help the Met better serve groups it has failed in the past. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The Metropolitan police have been accused of insulting black people and mocking the pain it has caused them after revealing it wants to absorb its anti-racism strategy into a broader anti-discrimination scheme.

The Met said the scheme, also including gender and sexual orientation, would increase its chance of success in better serving groups it had failed in the past.

But Dr Shereen Daniels, the academic whose report last year on race for the Met found it caused harm to black people, said the organisation lacked the will to stamp out prejudice and warned it was going backwards.

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